Hi. I recently switched to Proton Mail for their alias feature which lets me have several email addresses which get redirected to my main, private one. The email format is "[email protected]".

When trying to set it as my new email since I won't be using my old one, it gives me this error.

"Email address may not be used."

Are there any workarounds? Will I be forced to make a throwaway Gmail account just for e6? Is there any way I can unlink my email from my account? I don't particularly need messages sent to me for a service like this.. :/

The email for accounts on here is mostly used for if you request a password reset or otherwise need to recover your account.

We don't send out any newsletter or anything like that. So if you worry about spam, there's no need.

But if you don't use a working email for it, then we might have no way to help you recover your account if something ever happens. If I remember correctly, you also need to keep an email listed in your settings, or else you won't be able to save or change any settings (including your blacklist, comment view threshold, etc). So it's better to have it than to not.