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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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 Jason, I have been an email...Submitted by Scottw on August 23, 2007 - 6:53am.
Jason, I have been an email administrator for over 11 years, and have done so for a major telco and for hosting companies. It would not be accurate to put PGP/GPG encryption into the same category as SPF. SPF is growing in acceptance everyday. In fact, more often than not when I am troubleshooting emails being bounced and/or tagged as spam when dealing with clients and customers has to do if they have properly configured SPF. Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, all look to SPF for insight on the origin of the email and how to treat it. Spam filters like SpamAssassin check SPF. Major web hosting control panels like Plesk, put SPF controls dead center in mail administration for the average user. Both in setting it up and in how to treat incoming email. One should not turn a blind eye to SPF, like it or not, it is highly used. All it takes is a decision by a remote mail administrator to reject based on SPF, and your emails, not delivered through the proper gateway, would be rejected. Spam is such a problem for mail administrators, that they will use anything that is even remotely accepted to try and weed out gold/silver from the hay/stubble. My records indicate that incoming spam makes up 95% of mail servers I monitor. For example, one domain processed 1.5 million emails 3 months ago, 97% was spam. That is a lot of computing resources for a mail server. Spam filtering those on the server level is even MORE intensive, so the goal is to weed out emails even BEFORE they hit the spam filter, which includes use of RBL and SPF. If I can deny your email based on external criteria before it enters into the filter engine, more power to me. PGP requires use of the individual user to install software and make use of it. SPF is handled by domain administrators and mail administrators - average users have no control. » POSTED IN:
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