i think you will find it relatively easy to do. best of luck!

can’t learn new things, if other perspectives are angrily dismissed!

i am gonna jump in and say that it depends on how deeply “non technical” you are. if you are already running your own website, then you could likely handle doing your email the way i do. there’s all kinds of info online, that will show you how to do it.

i did check out addy.io, and it seems simple enough to use. looking further into it, there are other services out there too, that offer a similar service, like forwardemail.net.

have a wander around the web, and see which solution feels right for you.

some interesting points in this article, but none that are dealbreakers for me continuing the way i currently handle my email. the one example of : “your email is Hilton? do you work here?” typically no employee actually cares enough to ask that question. i have been running my email this way for 20 years (ish), so my sample size is large enough to suggest my results are reliable.

still great food for thought, though!

gonna have to see about perhaps implementing this…

ooh! the cheapskate part of me likes this option!

i own a domain, and have a catchall account which forwards to a single address.

any time i sign up for a service, i use their business name as the prefix.

for example : i decide to go shop at a store called Mold Gravy, and the clerk tells me i can save 15% on today’s purchase by giving them my email address. i tell them it’s moldgravy@mydomain.com.

this keeps my actual main email account from getting polluted, and also if i notice an increase in spam, i can see which company either sold my fake email address, or were compromised, and the i can simply block it.

it costs $10/yr for a domain name, and another $5/month for hosting. well worth it.

ETA : there’s a lot of really great suggestions here, not only in response to me, but also in this whole thread!