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How to deal with too many mail accounts?
Chage | Aug 5 2007
Hi All, I am starting to pull my hair out over mail productivity. Not because of too much mail, but because I have too many mail accounts. I have accounts from my ISP, Gmail, Work, Personal, .mac totaling about a dozen. Trying to find value in paying for .mac, I want to try and get all mail going to may .mac account. However there is a gotcha or two. 1) .mac will not allow you to have outbound email aliases for non .mac addresses So an email to Merlin advised that people on the forums were pretty smart and o ask them :) 1) Should I go down the path of forwarding email addresses to one account, or should I just keep to the status quo? 2) reply-to vs from: am I old fashioned in thinking from is better? 3) if responding true to 2), is there a script that can be run with mail.app to automagically fill out the reply-to field with the recipient email address when I hit reply? 4) Maybe I should forward email, but keep existing accounts just for sending? 5) What other options/opinions :) OK folks, have at it. I look forward to any advise you can give. 19 Comments
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 Vote for gMailSubmitted by spalmer47 on August 6, 2007 - 4:16am.
I was in the same situation, with more email addresses appearing every year (going back to school, joining an organization). I decided that I needed to have one location to check all email, and started by sending and receiving via Mail. I believe there is a setting that replies from the email account that received the message - I don't think there's an Applescript required. I eventually bailed on Mail (at least for the moment) after testing out gMail as my only mail "client". gMail allows you to retrieve messages from other accounts, and it has the ability to appear as other mail accounts when sending (using reply-to). As for one being "better" than the other, it hasn't made much difference. Two people didn't receive an email from me due to spam filtering, but that's not unlike any time I use a new email address, so YMMV. After being a casual gMail user for a long time, taking the plunge has been great for my productivity. My email processing is much more efficient now, and the filtering, tagging, etc. in gMail are truly powerful. » POSTED IN:
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