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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, Whether or not SPF is...Submitted by Scottw on August 23, 2007 - 10:50am.
Jason, Whether or not SPF is a valid spam tool is not part of this thread or my original reply. I mention SPF because, like it or not, it is in place and working in the current email world as we write these posts and it IS something to consider when you start trying to make a single email account for multiple domains with webmail access. I am simply pointing out the RED FLAGS that one needs to consider when combining mail accounts together, when the goal is to maintain the uniqueness of each account. OT You can carry your Anti-SPF flag forward changing one mail-administrator at a time, but this mail administrator is not out to solve the worlds email/spam problem. I have different crusades to deal with. For the record, SPF is NOT the best thing for limiting spam, it is ONE attempt. Just as RBLs are not the total solution and Spam Filters in all shapes and forms are not the total solution. But all combined together, my inbox manages to filter out around 150 spam messages each day from my mailbox without me doing anything, and it's rare to get a false positive. » POSTED IN:
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