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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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 A while back I pared...Submitted by williamk on August 13, 2007 - 11:20am.
A while back I pared everything down from multiple POP accounts in Outlook to a single Gmail sign in. First I moved my two domains to the Google Apps for Your Domain service. Then on my less used domain, I setup a single mail account with the 3 addresses I had for different things. Then forwarded that to my primary account on the main domain. So I went from 5 accounts in Outlook to a single sign-on web based system. Its been working great for me. I dont have silly email names so the "bob@bob.com on behalf of chuck@chuck.com" display in Outlook isnt really an issue for me. Everything in one place and accessible from anywhere. Plus after importing all my old mail, tagging some of it (I'm moving away from tagging to purely search based retrieval), I'm able to maintain a zero inbox pretty easily and I spend less time "managing" my mail. Oh yeah, and Gmail's spam filtering is awesome. I went from 500+ spam messages a day to 1-2 in my inbox and maybe 10 per day in the spam folder. The rest just went away :) » POSTED IN:
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