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I understand not everyone is able or willing to pay for email, but I wanted to share my 33 euros per year setup which works beautifully and was pretty easy to configure using services based and hosted in Europe. Highly recommend it to others.

I registered a domain to use for email and it all forwards to my Posteo address. Each of my accounts has its own address (e.g., spotify@mydomain.com if I used Spotify) created on-the-fly through Addy.io. When I have to provide an address then I make it up on the spot and I can configure it further later if I want. For example, I recently got car insurance quotes and gave all the insurance companies carinsurance2025@mydomain.com for my address.

Using a separate email address for each account/purpose enhances privacy and security. I also know if someone sold my data and I can easily disable any address and never get spam to it again. Nobody ever sees the Posteo address where all my mail is forwarded, so if someone wanted to gain access to my "main" account they wouldn't even know where to begin.

If I ever want to ditch Posteo then I can do it in seconds through Addy.io. If Addy.io stops working then I own the domain where all my emails are going, so I would just change a few settings to continue receiving emails.