Alt Account Master

How to complete Alt Account Master

A dedicated throwaway email soaks up the newsletters, coupons, and one-time signups that would otherwise bury messages from real people. Your primary inbox stays clean, and you can ignore the junk account for weeks without missing anything that matters.

1. Create a free email on a provider separate from your main one, or generate a new alias.
2. Route every loyalty program, free download, webinar, and discount form to it from now on.
3. Either forward the rare important message to your main inbox or just check it on a schedule.
4. As old marketing mail arrives, swap those subscriptions over to the new address.

Tips

• Plus-addressing (you+shop@gmail.com) or built-in aliases work if you'd rather not run a whole second account.
• Never use the alt address for banking, work, or password resets; treat it as disposable.
• A password manager makes juggling two logins effortless.

What counts as done

A working secondary email exists and you've begun directing promotional signups to it instead of your main inbox.