Walkthrough of Setting Up a Secure Email Service Using Protonmail

Managing Email AccountsShow more

Why Would I Need Multiple Email Accounts?

1) To help secure your financial accounts such as, banking or brokerage accounts.

Email addresses are often used to identify a user on a financial website.
Having a separate email for your financial email accounts can make it easier to identify the source of a data leak or where a phishing attempt has occurred.

2) Using a dedicated 'Junk mail' address will help keep your 'real' email address less cluttered.

Often a website will ask for your email address to send you a link to the information you are curious about.
Using a junk mail address will help keep the spam out of your normal day to day email address. Later if you decide that the website your signed onto is worth it, you can update your email address in your account profile to your 'real' email address.

3) Just as you would not use your work or business email for your personal email address, you should use a separate email for your financial accounts instead of your personal day to day email account.

For example, you need to search the emails for your brokerage account’s password reset instructions.
It will be easier to find in an email account that only contains your brokerage emails than in your day to day email account that has everything in it, including Grandma's cake recipes and travel photos.

Suggested List of Email Accounts

This is only a suggested list. You can set up as many, or as few accounts, as you are comfortable using.

1) For junk mail – Gmail
GMail is a popular email service, but is also known for tracking of user data for advertising purposes.
Use this email address for initial sign-up on websites and for sites that you suspect will spam you. Never use it as an identifier email (ie Apple ID) for your smartphone or tablet device. Then you should get less ads because of the spamming websites.
2) Personal day to day email – Protonmail
3) Banking and brokerage services – Protonmail
4) Cryptocurrency exchange accounts - Protonmail
Protonmail provides an encrypted email service that identifies spam emails and filters them out.
Emails are transmitted in a secure manner and Protonmail does not track you.