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Originally Posted by su2009
If you buy your own domain name through a low-cost registrar like Namecheap, you can get inexpensive email from them that includes a very powerful spam filter at their server level, so it never reaches you.
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If you are willing to spend a little more time setting things up you can get a personalized domain (about $15 per year) and then set up multiple email accounts using that domain which all forward to your regular (primary) email address that you only give to friends. That way you only have to check one email account.
For instance, you could set up
banking@your_domain.com and use that one for your various banking and brokerage accounts,
shopping@your_domain.com for retail accounts, etc. If one of them started to show up on a large amount of spam you could delete it and create a new one for those accounts (i.e.
bankaccts@your_domain.com) That way you won't have to change your email account info on too many online accounts at a time.
OR you can just skim the messages in your junk folder once a day to make sure nothing legitimate is in there and then delete them all. As Charlie said, it only takes a few seconds.
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