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Old 11 Apr 2020, 02:56 AM   #6
Tsunami
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Interesting concept for sure. Instead of marking the email addresses you don't want to receive from and block them, you mark those addresses that are allowed to email you.

I think this would be perfect for someone who needs an account just to communicate with close friends, family etc in all privacy ; only people (s)he knows the email address from.
Of course you'd need an additional mailbox for receiving mails of people whose email address is unknown to you (for example to sign up for a forum or mailinglist, or if someone promises you "one of my colleagues will email you" etc).

But for private communication with friends and family only, people you know the email address from, it looks very interesting.

Adding an entire domain as OK to accept emails from can be tricky, you can maybe do that with the domainname of your employer or your local sports club you're member of, but the moment someone would --without thinking-- whitelist all gmail.com addresses or hotmail.com addresses, the concept loses its power.

In other words: excellent for some purposes, but a secondary email account is needed for those mails not being amongst those purposes.
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