Certain email providers not allowed?

[Remi Alpha]

I tried to register an alt account using my Proton Mail email address and it was not allowed. The error message is not helpful but I dug into it in my browser...

Looking at response body of the XHR request posted by the sign-up form `@proton.me` is apparently classed as "low trust" and my address is flagged as a disposable email address (it's not, I've had it for a while).

My main account uses a Yahoo email address. I am not able to register another account with Yahoo because each one requires verification using a different mobile number.

Is there a Policy document that lists email services not permitted by Second Life?

Are there any other free email providers recommended?

 

Edited February 20, 2023 by Remi Alpha

[Wulfie Reanimator]

You can register multiple SL accounts under the same email address.

[Remi Alpha]

20 minutes ago, Wulfie Reanimator said:

You can register multiple SL accounts under the same email address.

Oh really? I just assumed it wouldn't let me and didn't even try. Thank you!

[Katherine Heartsong]

I have both accounts (me and male me) registered at Proton, who are about the only email provider I trust. Never had an issue.

[Coffee Pancake]

1 hour ago, Katherine Heartsong said:

I have both accounts (me and male me) registered at Proton, who are about the only email provider I trust. Never had an issue.

This filter appears to only be applied during creation, safe to assume this is a recent change.

[Quistess Alpha]

For what it's worth, gmail is quite nice for spamming different addresses for accounts:

• You can add a "+tag" to the end of your address,  so myEmail+secondlife@gmail.com and myEmail+secondlifeAlt@gmail.com both get routed to the owner of myEmail@gmail.com.
• Some sites don't think '+' is a valid character in email addresses. To bully them, you can infix '.' anywhere in the address before the '@': like my.Email@gmail.com or m.y.e.m.a...i.l@gmail.com .

Edited February 20, 2023 by Quistess Alpha

[LittleMe Jewell]

I use Sneakemail for a lot of sites, simply because I can more easily deactivate a specific address - and if I start getting spam to a specific address, I know which company/website likely sold my email address.  Sneakemail actually has a few domains they use for the addresses.  Sometime in the past 2-3 years I started having trouble using addresses from some of the domains - but not all of them, so not sure how they decide what is okay and what isn't.