I have eight e-mail addresses. Each serves a different function. I get notifications on my cell phone for one of them (noiseless, I set it to vibrate so the chime doesn't interfere with my hearing aids). For people I do /not/ want notifications from, I set up their contact info on my list so I don't get notifications. I check a couple of my e-mail accounts throughout the day, and the rest I check once every few weeks as needed.
All spam goes into the spam boxes, with no notifications at all. I check those once a month. Anything interesting from a company I do business with, I move to my inbox and read later when I'm in the mood to do so, and then I "select all" and delete everything in the spam box without opening them.
It takes me a total of 10 minutes to go through my e-mails every day, with the singular exception of some substack bloggers I subscribe to. I read their blog directly on my e-mail instead of going to their substack page, and then I delete the e-mail. I consider that my idea of an "op ed" section of a newspaper though, and not really e-mails.
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