[ChikkaChiChi]

Why aren't there any email services that provide "Zero Trust" email? An email firewall would solve so many problems:

- All email goes directly to a PROCESS folder - Emails you have responded to or in your Contacts get processed by Rules/Enter Inbox - Allow/Deny context for individual or entire domain - Display sender domain prominently - Display TLD in alert before following any clicked link - Block link clicking, images, etc. from unapproved contacts

Now you are left with seeing only the things you approve of, unless you make a willing choice to go and view the Wild West of unapproved senders. Once trained, it's easy to see that you don't often get unsolicited messages you are interested in.

This should be easy to do, but no provider I've used has made it the default. I've had to cobble together my own solutions to make this work.

[kwhitefoot]

I have a rule in Thunderbird that puts all email that comes from senders not in my contacts in a special folder.

[neilv]

Same here. For simplicity, incoming emails from senders that aren't in my addressbook go automatically to the "Junk" IMAP folder, together with what the email hoster's spam filter moved there.

That rule has a few exclusions. For example, incoming emails from a handful of particular universities and companies I work with can go to "Inbox" because seeing them ASAP is likely important.

[lupire]

What happens when you ask someone to email you, but you don't send them an email first?

[neilv]

Then I might not see their message for a day or so, unless I'm actively checking more frequently for it, or unless I add them to my addressbook ahead of time.

[kwhitefoot]

That's why my rule doesn't put it in the junk folder. I put it in a sub-folder of the inbox so that it is easily seen.

[nojito]

Because this increases load on tech support for people who thought they approved everything but didn’t.

[teh_klev]

Isn't this what Hey (Basecamp folks) does with their "Screener" feature?

https://www.hey.com/features/the-screener/

[BeetleB]

I did this as well: http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2018/Sep/solving-my-email-proble...

I believe hey.com provides this. Some years ago I did find a few other obscure providers with this service. Here's another one: https://www.spamarrest.com/features/

[jrochkind1]

That's basically what hey.com (mentioned in OP) is doing, i think, although I haven't used it. it's gotten mixed reviews.