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I use Proton, business tier. My only gripe is that addresses can't be deleted without contacting support, or so I've read. I can't find a delete button on any of my addresses, but can find the button to buy more address slots.
Using custom domains and a catch-all pointing to certain labels is my workaround.
I also find it weird that you can't create unlimited addresses on your custom domains.
For the shared domains, limits in this regard are absolutely understandable as the supply is limited but addresses should have next to no cost for PM when they're under my own domain.
Why is that? @[email protected]
This and the fact that I can't use my mail clients on android (I understand the bridge and the incompatibility with encryption, it makes sense, I just don't like it), stops me from being a paid customer
I imagine a bad actor could buy a custom domain, connect it to proton, and then spam millions of people from thousands of addresses, using Proton's infrastructure?
What is the # limit on a custom domain?
You could do that without creating thousands of addresses; one is plenty for that. Also, they'd still be under your domain, so all you'd do is hurt the custom domain's reputation and probably get it blocked by everyone quite quickly. If anything, I'd imagine thousands of addresses under one domain spamming would get that domain banned much more quickly than if it was just one address.
There is no specific limit for addresses on custom domains; it's one global limit of 15 addresses, no matter which domain they're under.
You aren't missing anything. You can't delete them yourself, but, you can pause them. For now, for me, the pause works just as well because if/when any of my email addys starts getting ridiculous spam I'll just pause it. I run a business off one of my accounts and I don't want any of the emails I've handed out to not reach me so I am fine nit being able to delete (for now). I've just been extra careful to choose addresses that I don't feel a need to delete.