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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 don't mean to be...Submitted by msanford on August 10, 2007 - 11:20pm.
I don't mean to be pedantic, but why do you need a dozen email addresses? Is it not possible for you to can 10 of them? I have been in a similar situation and followed my own advice, as it were, and consolidated all my communication through two addresses: one provided by my university, which is IMAP, and because of various FIPPA policies I am obligated to use it to communicate with my students and other faculty, and the POP3 provided by my ISP for personal stuff. I have yet a third, GMail, I use for anything I think I might get spammed from, but I don't use it for real communication. Just a thought, sorry that it doesn't actually address your question. » POSTED IN:
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