Alter or disable orignial email address
I no longer use my original email address due to 99.9% of it being spam. I would like the option of disabling or changing that original address to eliminate my need to empty the spam folder continually (I'm OCD).
Eric
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Brielle
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99% of people who initially start using Proton Mail will NOT deeply understand the advanced security/spam mitigation features, and as such, will ALWAYS end up with the original/default email address out in the wild being sold/bought for new spammers. It's MORE important for the original email to be able to be disabled or removed than the additional mailboxes, so I'm very surprised this basic overview of use case and user behavior was missed by the team. I definitely agree this needs to be handled if the Proton team actually wants to help the users mitigate privacy and spam concerns, and if it's unhandleable, then there needs to be an easy way to migrate to an entirely new account easily, since again, this use case is frankly the most important missing privacy-minded feature today.
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NiftyPastry commented
Should be possible to change the email address, just like it's possible to change the password. In my case, I have an email address which has become too expensive to maintain, and I want to migrate to another service. The only way to change the email on my account is to create a new Proton account and export/import all my passwords. This could be complicated if you have other Proton Services beyond just the password manager.