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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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 I myself prefer to go...Submitted by mdl on August 9, 2007 - 7:24am.
I myself prefer to go with a central email hub that all my mail gets funnelled to and that I can access from everywhere (i.e., web app and/or IMAP). Gmail is great as a web app, with two HUGE caveats. 1) It doesn't support IMAP, so it's difficult to use with multiple machine-based email clients. 2) It allows you to send via other addresses, but it shows your gmail address in the "Sender" field. To recipients who use Outlook, your "professional" email will thus appear like this: From: cutey.pie@gmail.com[/email] on behalf of [email]john.smith@university.edu Could be problematic in professional contexts (especially if you have a decidedly unprofessional gmail account name). If you want true email power (with an admittedly unintuitive, if powerful, web interface), plunk down $20 for a fastmail.fm account. The web app supports aliases, multiple personalities (i.e., send from any address and make it appear like it's from that address), signatures (differing according to which address you're sending from), and IMAP access. This is my preferred hub for managing my many other email accounts. » POSTED IN:
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