Split address mode - separate emails into different inboxes
Separate email addresses are for separate things so it would be helpful to just click an email address from the menu and see only those emails sent to that specific ProtonMail address.
Multiple inboxes.
We are reviewing this idea to get closer to a clean inbox for all our users. We will let you know once we have more updates
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T commented
Agreed need this badly
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CS commented
It is incredibly frustrating not being able to keep inboxes separate. How has this never been addressed? Come on PM, you can do better than this.
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Cornelius commented
yeah, it kinda sucks having to type in the email everytime in search bar, not sure if there are any formats that can be used to search the email and the topic?
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André commented
You can already achieve this with labels and filters.
Settings -> Folders & Labels -> Add label -> Name it however you want the inbox to be called
Settings -> Filters -> Add filter -> Name your filter (name it whatever, it doesn't show anywhere) -> Click next -> Statement: ALL, IF (the recipient) (is exactly) [enter the email address you want associated with this label] -> Click next -> Label as [Select your label] -> Save.
Repeat this will all your addresses. You can then select which label you want to view on the menu to the left.
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Anonymous commented
Definite need. I would also suggest it be user optional.
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MWmC commented
Thank you for asking for this. I would prefer to have some sort of easy way of identifying emails that come in from other than my primary address.
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Great Afoofum commented
Using filters and directories (there are no such thing as folders unless you're working with hard copy) works fine for me. If I could down-vote this, I would.
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Phil commented
I concur. I have two users and two domains. In my previous provider each user has an email address for each domain. The PM professional plan provides only one mailbox per user regardless of number of domains and addresses. To keep the mail for each account separate I would have to have four users under the professional plan, resulting in a higher cost than the visionary plan which already includes six users by default. Very strange.
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Same use-case as what others have said. I have my business email signed up in addition to my standard @protonmail address. It's tough to migrate my old personal email to protonmail because I do NOT want my business email cluttered with personal emails. I understand it will take some work to implement, but having a sub folder of Inbox for the non-primary email address seems like it wouldn't be hard to do. Just grab record results with the current sub-Inbox email address on it, and nothing else when viewing that Folder; Please implement this so I can finally migrate my personal email address away from the corporations that don't care about nor respect my privacy (looking at you, Google).
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Cedric commented
From previous comment: "I definitely signed up for the Plus subscription not realizing that each email shows up in the same inbox. I currently am filtering each email to go in different folders, but then the folders are all the way at the bottom of the menu. I'm considering labels now. How are others organizing/managing their inbox with multiple emails?" - > I do the same, using filtering and folders
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Anonymous commented
I definitely signed up for the Plus subscription not realizing that each email shows up in the same inbox. I currently am filtering each email to go in different folders, but then the folders are all the way at the bottom of the menu. I'm considering labels now. How are others organizing/managing their inbox with multiple emails?
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haise0 commented
Having the leeway to use multiple addresses for the same inbox is really important in my eyes as it provides a secure way to use an alias and still see it all collected in the same place. However, not having the ability to choose to keep them separate in their own inboxes (i.e different email inboxes for the same account) feels like you guys went halfway with it and then called it good. Giving the user the choice to disable the forwarding for the alias address to the main address and instead grant access to that email's inbox as its own would be really great, since it would play to the strengths of an already existing feature, and coincide with the two group of people who enjoy the alias feature as-is, and the group of people who question why they aren't separate inboxes.
By default they could be simple aliases that forward to the main address upon creation; no changes there. Then, you could also include a "convert to inbox" feature in the alias address's settings, which would disable whatever forwarding it's using and create a new isolated inbox for it.
Purchasing a subscription for 5 email addresses when in reality they only function as aliases is almost there; great for about half of the people, who want it all in one place. Just not super friendly for the other half of everyone who wants the capability to separate them and use them as actual functioning standalone email addresses.
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Angela commented
Have Colour graphics and when there are two separate email accounts clearly show that they are separate and apart. Right now I'm so confused as to what's coming in to what email address and it's all grey it's awful!
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Andrew S. commented
Although, as one Anonymous commenter points out, Bridge has combined/separate addresses, but I believe it gives the client (that runs Bridge) access to all your addresses on Proton servers. This has necessitated me to downgrade my personal PM account, so that I could create a separate paid account for my custom domain. (I need to give my hosting server SMTP access in order to send registration and password-change confirmation emails to my customers. I do not care to give said server access to my personal email.) Can't afford two paid subscriptions, so I'm stuck with Free for my primary personal email. :( --> FEATURE REQUEST: separate credentials for each address for Bridge (at least as an option). I have no idea how difficult this would be to get right; probably quite difficult unfortunately...
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Dvora Paul commented
Filter on Address is cumbersome. In Android app, you have to type the name. Separate inboxes for each address within the account would make the simple fact that multiple addresses are allowed within one paid account much more usable.
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Ben commented
I too have a need for separate inboxes. That would make using ProtonMail so much better.
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Rose commented
This feature is crucial. Otherwise, why have multiple email addresses.
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Rose commented
Why is there no way to organize by alias email addresses? I would not have signed up for this feature if I knew this would be the case.
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Anonymous commented
This is important to me also, the functionality is available in the desktop bridge which gives you the option of combined or separate inboxes.
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Stewart commented
ProtonMail Plus currently dumps all emails for all of the user's multiple addresses/aliases into the same inbox window, showing only the subject line and the recipient name. This is problematic for those using different email addresses for different purposes.
The service would be significantly improved by the simple ability to toggle the view to show mails only for a single email address at a time in the main window. It seems that something like this should be easily accomplished, since presumably system knows the address the email was directed to. So it seems that there should be the ability to put a pull-down menu, checkboxes or some other control that would enable you to see only the messages to one address or another in your account.
If this couldn't be done, at least the address that the email was sent to should be shown in the display, so that one can distinguish between the addresses in this way. It shouldn't be necessary to apply a label to all of your messages for a basic function like this, in my view.