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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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 @Scottw: I think your advice is...Submitted by jason.mcbrayer on August 23, 2007 - 3:33am.
@Scottw: I think your advice is basically sound on the mechanics of how to reduce your email accounts. And I am not a tremendous fan of webmail. However, I'm not as sure about your concerns about SPF. Is there any evidence that SPF is actually widely used for spam filtering? I would have thought that this article, and more technical ones like it would have discouraged its uptake. It's hard to get an idea that requires wide uptake to be useful to be used widely enough to be useful, even if it's unambiguously useful (as SPF is not). Consider public-key encrypted email, and why it is not more widely used. » POSTED IN:
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