Every month I receive ~5000 spam emails. I am not very surprised, knowning that my email addresses appear in ~20 data breaches. Email providers filtered out most of them, but after filtering I still receive ~100 every month. It is very annoying when I'm interrupted by an email notification, only to realize that it's from a spam email. Meanwhile I cannot just disable all notifications. Three months ago, I started to try to improve the situation. First of all I explored options for email aliases . Then in the past 3 months, I have been manually reviewing all email messages in the inbox. That are in total ~70k messages. Basically I'm creating a whitelist of senders, and I only enabled notifiation for allowed messages. This turned out to work quite well, I can clearly feel the improvement of life quality. Occassionally I may still need to manually review other messages, but that's OK. Meanwhile, I took this opportunity to review all accounts that I have previouly registered
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