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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JohnDoe commented
Is there a reason Proton does not comment on this suggestion? It is a requested feature since 2016. If it is impossible please tell us or else tell us why there is no interest at Proton to implement this. Too difficult to implement? Too confusing for users? Too much of a resource hog? What is it?
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Anonymous commented
[Updated at bottom] I've upvoted this back in 2019, and am still waiting on it to happen. This can be a serious security concern for those who have migrated completely to Proton and use their mobile for emailing.
Consider the scenario:
1) I create an email address specifically for spam and other junk accounts
2) I then create a secondary email specifically for business and sensitive account info.
3) Neither account is my default
4) I receive a new email notice on my phone from Proton.In this situation, I open up Protonmail to check my messages, but don't see anything, because the default view is only new mail from the account I have set as default. On the mobile android app, the way to see new mail from other accounts is one of two ways:
1) select "view all mail" where it lumps ALL your mail from all addresses (trash included) into one view.
2) Select menu, select your account settings way at the bottom, select account settings, select "default email address", expand your options and select the appropriate email account you want to view, back, back, back, view the emails (now you are only viewing emails that have come into that one account). When you are finished looking at those emails, repeat the whole process to return your account back to the regular default view.Guess which way everyone here is going to use the most? "All Mail" is a simple way to view everything that has come in, but removes the whole point of having multiple addresses. It doesn't even tell you which email address received the email, until you open it, further expanding your chances of compromise, this means that the user must be much more vigilant in opening each email and checking which address it was addressed to, which leaves a much larger chance of mishap than necessary.
The WebGUI is even worse, as it automatically lumps all the addresses together, and still doesn't tell you which email it came into until you open it. I understand that the ProtonBridge can mitigate this by automatically dumping emails into folders based off recipient email, but 90% of my email work is via phone, and the other 10 percent, is WebGUI, I'd rather stay away from the bridge unless I absolutely had to.
If I could put ALL my votes on this single feature, I would do that, but at present, I am limited to 3, and "Critical" rating.
Please consider this "feature" a security necessity for those who don't use the bridge. Thank you
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Update: After some research, I found that I was mostly able to mitigate the lack of ability to separate email addresses by using filtering rules as follows:
IF Received by [email1] apply label [1]
IF Received by [email2] Put in folder [2] and apply label [2]
IF Received by [email3] Put in folder [3] and apply label [3]I color each folder and label something very different from each other, and by not putting [email1] in a folder, it shows up in the regular inbox, while all the other email addresses show up in their own folders exclusively.
This works well enough, with the labeling clearly showing which of my addresses actually received the email now, I'm mostly comfortable moving forward with the rest of my migration into Proton, but it has a few flaws/benefits that users need to be aware of:
1) All emails go to the same archive, they aren't really separated, just your rules putting them in the same folders
2) Searches will hit all the email addresses at once (whether this is good or bad is up to you)Hopefully I help someone with this until Proton fixes it. I would still like to see the ability to have each email as it's own instance, but now I can at least use it with higher confidence.
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brokenalleluia commented
I just signed up for Plus and the first thing that stood out to me in a negative way is the lack of separate inboxes. I use different addresses for different purposes and it's a huge pain to have everything lumped together willy-nilly in one inbox. Already starting to wonder whether my decision to try to migrate from Gmail was the right one.
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Jeff Greene commented
The way it is now is just ridiculous. It pretty much negates the multiple email address feature... what's the point?
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Merrill commented
When I made my first alias, I expected this to be an already made function. Sadly, it is not. This would be the best way to do it. Different in boxes for different aliases.
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WQT commented
This is what I expected Proton to do in the web interface when I subscribed to get 10 adresses. To me it is very important to separate personal/work/subscriptions/newsletters,etc. And not view them all at the same time in order to focus, while being able to easily access them. I would really like fully independent sent and draft boxes, not just filters for the inbox, although there might already be a way to do this...
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Alexander commented
Yes, please. A single user shouldn't need to buy two accounts just to separate emails (e.g., work and personal). Paying a little extra for the feature would be fine, just not paying for a full extra account. I don't need two VPN subscriptions, for instance.
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B.B. commented
+3 votes on this one.
I was expecting the multiple addresses in Proton Unlimited to translate to separate inboxes (at least optionally). I'd really like to own multiple Proton addresses for different things and be able to treat them almost like separate accounts. I know I can create rules to move emails to specific folders and/or label them; but I find that to be cluttering and unnecessary. I have no problems with those addresses all sharing the same amount of Proton Drive storage; I just don't feel like the business tier makes sense for me.
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Duilio commented
I was rather disappointed when I discovered that the "15 email addresses" in the Proton Unlimited plan are actually 15 email aliases and not 15 mailboxes. All the other email providers I have used for the past 20 years gave me unlimited aliases.
Please at least add "aliases" to the Proton Pricing Plans page.
For example in Mail Plus:
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Anonymous commented
This is very important. Sure, I could setup bridge and a CLIENT, but rather not. Web based needs this functionality too.
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sylvie beaufort commented
oui c'est très important
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DR AFSHAN ANIS commented
I have six email addresses and I want to request for every separate email organizer for better and time saving for as who have many addresses uses to know which emails are need to be taken care of. Thanks
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Andrew commented
I agree. Using a filter doesn't quite satisfy things since if archive items they get all grouped together. I'd effectively have to create both a folder (that serves as my inbox for my aliases) and a tag with the same name as the folder to keep things easy to find after archiving. This functionality works, but is a bit cluttered.
Honestly, I'd probably be okay with this workflow if nested tags were supported just to keep the sidebar clutter free. Or just forego folders altogether and allow for a more robust, nested tag functionality. I do actually like the idea of not having to navigate to login multiple times to access my different email inboxes.
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Andria commented
It's too bad this has so little votes, maybe the topic was already discussed elsewhere ?
I completely agree with the importance of this feature. I recently switched to Mail Plus, which is great, I can now classify each mails & recipients by topics, but it looses all purpose when everything is dumped under the same inbox. Might as well keep just one email address or two, and switch manually with the login/logout. Or use other platform altogether (Gmail).
And let's not talk about the app, where you can't even search-filter based on the mail address.
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Mo commented
I cannot stress how important it is to have separate inboxes for different email addresses.
On MacOS this is already implemented. For each email address Mail Bridge configures a separate inbox.
However, the proton Mail mobile app just dumps all incoming emails to the same inbox.
I really have to enable notifications for my primary email address (For which I only receive 3 or 4 important emails per day which I have to reply to in a timely manner).
But as all the emails to my spam address are ending up in the same inbox on mobile, this leaves me with 30 or 40 notifications per day.It seems like the most obvious feature to me. Have a switch where you can either have all incoming mail in the same inbox or have them in multiple different inboxes.
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Anon commented
Use a filter. But I do partially agree with you; a pre-made way to check inboxes by "alias" would be great.
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Ed K commented
I was about to ask for this and saw this old request. Normally I do use the bridge with thunderbird, but on the Android app and web app, especially when traveling, having 5+ emails jammed into one inbox lump is a bit annoying.
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hannah commented
This feature already has a semi implementation! Simply add automatic folder forwards by filtering incoming emails per alias/domain.
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rucete commented
I also think my protonmail.com, proton.me and pm.me emails should have one inbox each. This is what's being discussed here, right?
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Nick Green commented
This is an absolute must. Only just moved to Proton from Google, and the lack of this feature is likely to make me leave proton for my business emails.