I create aliases and each contact gets an alias. If the address EVERY gets spam, I know exactly who is at fault.
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2025
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Unsubscribe from them. Little by little. And always untick the marketing/newsletter options when you sign up
Agreed, it's a long and boring process but works eventually.
Make disposable e-mails.
I run my own mail server with rspamd. It learns spam automatically based on the emails I move into the Spam folder and gives new incoming mails a probability score. If the probability of an email being spam is over a certain threshold, it gets moved into the Spam folder automatically or deleted entirely.
It works extremely well! But I also share my mailserver with a few friends and we have a collection of spam that spans ~20 years, which is a great dataset for training tools like these.
Primarily by having multiple email addresses and aliases.
I realized that on many occasions, I'm giving out my email merely as part of signing up for an account or resetting my password. So I made accounts and aliases that I use when I don't forsee a service sending any messages of value after I sign up. I star the confirmation email for my records and ignore whatever junk mail comes my way, first-party or third-party.
As for the main personal email I use to actually communicate with people, my provider's built-in spam filter has done a good enough job so far. If it misses anything, it usually follows a pattern (topic, domain, etc.) so I just make my own filter rule. In the off chance I do want messages in my main inbox from a service after I sign up, I do so with an alias. If that alias gets compromised, I just cut it off.
Granted, I don't see much spam anyway since most of my email is work-related, my employer's IT department seems to do a good job of filtering out spam, and I'm strict about not using my work email outside of work.