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You should use Gmail. Reason being some lazily designed IT systems block emails that come from easy-to-register domains, and Proton among others frequently end up on the list.
If you're an email purist and want to fight the corporations that do the lazy blocking by letting them miss your emails, go ahead, but it might not be the most effective protest.
Should I use my gmail account for career related purposes or should a proton.me address be fine?
I've worked at a couple of places where it was a kind of "badge of pride" to be more in control of your email e.g. tech companies dealing with infrastructure/hosting. And then of course there is, what I imagine, the vast majority of places which could not care less.
Why do you type with
random parts
split by carraige
return.
It makes me read it like Captain Kirk.
Haha yeah I've written a fediverse system which connects email and activitypub. Writing these from my regular email client (more info if interested: https://apubtest2.srcbeat.com/apas.html) Looks like what I'm gonna do is delete all carriage returns out just before it's sent out to the fediverse. Thanks for spotting that!
Out of curiosity from which app/client/frontend did you notice this?
what client are you using? i dont think most render single linebreaks
Ah good spot. Sync for Lemmy renders the new lines.
Still don't know why they are there in the first place :)
perhaps habit? i know many people write markdown documents that way, it can help with editors which dont wrap text, and may be better for using grep and related line-based tools.
Ah so if you really want to know, it's because one of the mail clients I use quoted-printable encodes the body when sending a message with lines >80-ish characters.
I haven't implemented a decoder on the other end. My current workaround is to pipe everything through fmt before it goes out.
i know many people write markdown documents that way,
Yes I also actually do this too; I'm a fan of semantic line feeds.
In case you couldn't tell, the whole system is a WIP ;)
No one really cares as long as it's not something extremely weird.
I personally opted for registering a domain name which I use to create an aliased email (along with a personal website), but this is mostly to set myself up for a possible pivot to doing consulting later on in my career. It's pretty cheap, all things considered - I pay $12 a year for it.
Is the proton.me a professional sounding name like your real name? or is it xxbussydestroyerxx or something?
Create a new email address for each round of job hunting if you’re going to apply to many places. I can guarantee this email will get spam for years to come. Job boards and recruiting firms sell and reuse email lists. You don’t want to still get spam offering you junior roles ten years into your career.
A Proton address is fine. Like others have said, keep it professional.
I expect to learn that Google has been selling a "sentiment analysis" (measure of desperation) to potential employers, based on the contents on my Gmail inbox during my job search.
So I no longer allow anything financial to go through Gmail.
Source: just my suspicion, since it would compliment health and health insurance privacy horrors (MIB) and financial privacy invasions (credit scores, Equifax).