Does anyone else find the email standard opener of

Dear Name

To be too informal?

I think it's fine.

@DLMousey

"you bloody wanker" is also a brilliant opening

Dear name is fine. Or if you like = Everdearest lol

I generally start with dear name only

I usually use "aye mate" or "yo"

I use Ahoy (for co-workers) :D

In German there are like hundred ways to open an email going from pretty formal to informal
Sehr geehrte(r) Herr/Frau xxx (pretty formal)
Guten Tag Herr/Frau xxx (formal as well but not as much as the above)
And then theres just "Hallo xxx" which is something you would write to a friend or someone you are somewhat close with

Dear @irene ,

There are email greetings more formal than dear?

Depends on the company. A car insurance company is in my opinion more formal then a webshop. But regularly I find it more personal to be called by name. In Dutch we have 'jij' which means you and 'u' which means also you but then more formal. I like the jij variant

@ThatPerlDeb and don't forget the >200 possible letter endings.

Too informal? How much more formal can you get?

@ModernShoe it just feels like I'm calling someone dear...

It doesn't help that I was emailing someone with a stripper name so...

Meh. I use hey, hello, hi all, etc

@ThatPerlDeb don't forget “Hallo Herr/Frau ...“ which you use when someone awkwardly opened with "Sehr geehrter Herr..." but you're thinking the conversation you're having doesn't require such a level of formality, but you still don't know the person close enough for a "Hallo <Prename>"

Gotta love Germany!