How do you deal with an overflowing Inbox?

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Firstly, I'm a big fan of Inbox Zero and have religiously pruned my Inbox such that it doesn't get overflown as much anymore, yet there are still emails seeping in from all directions, most of which don't have an 'unsubscribe' option. They are mostly Bacn[0] and half-way between spam and something useful I need to know.Like for example, Paypal loves to tell me I removed a card from my account, but there's no way to turn that off in their dashboard. They just fire off every activity I've made with no option to stop these cruft emails from accumulating. Now multiply that same situation to 100x services I've created with my account and you have a big problem.I recently heard Mozilla are offering a throwaway/disposable email service for $1.00/month and I'm excited for that and might try it, but I often want emails tied to my account and not some proxy service that could shut down at any moment and prevent me from doing password resets or reclaiming my account!How are you people coping with an overflowing Inbox, what's your strategy?[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bacn

sva_ · Accepted Answer

I just hope that the important ones will reappear and catch my attention, if they didn't before.edit: If there's some spam-ish stuff going on and I can't easily deactivate it, then I'll just spamblock them, because fuck them.

gostsamo · Answer

First, you can use the +tag functionality of email to sort stuff.
Second, Gmail and every other email provider, together with my beloved thunderbird have options to set rules to email that do different stuff on an email based on conditions like:
if subject contains "hi, hi", send to spam
if email is to gostsamo+paypal@example.com and body contains "card removed", send to trash

ttyprintk · Answer

If you&rsquo;re amenable to creating some sort filters, you can add arbitrary variations using +. Not all web forms accept this (you may need to hack with %2A). Not all mail delivery agents support it, either.But, if me+paypal@domain.foo and me+irs@domain.foo are sending you different volumes of traffic, this could help you filter.