How many email accounts/addresses are better?
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I have around 30 currently valid and "in-use" email addresses. I originally used this strategy as a hedge against spam, but now I use it as a way of managing my activities. I suppose it is also a hedge against certain security problems. I have several machines, including Windows development, linux server, linux development, travelling laptop and work machines. I subscribe to various mailing lists and the mail goes to the appropriate place. The machine I do my banking on has different security concerns than the one I travel with. It is a strategy that has worked out well.
-- Harvey
H.Brydon wrote:
The machine I do my banking on has different security concerns than the one I travel with
I follow the same too. I logon to my online banking websites only on Chrome through my Ubuntu laptop which is configured via OpenDNS.
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Today me and a couple of my friends had an interesting discussion during lunch. Just thought would share a snippet of the same. How many email accounts would you consider manageable for an individual. A few perceptions are: 1) One good provider like Yahoo/Google: (a) Labels for individual purposes like Bank, Job/Resumes, Friends, Forums (b) Storage of our own files as attachments in separate labels 2) One separate email for each purpose as listed above. Would you again consider a single provider (I often see this as being monopolized and/or all eggs in the same basket) or depending upon the importance of each label, apportion it among different providers? 3) Backup of an email account to another with a good storage. However care need to be taken that the contents do not go obsolete.. I think more than a Lounge post, this can serve as a CP Survey idea. Nevertheless, just thought would initiate a brainstorming on the same.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
- One good provider like Yahoo/Google:
(a) Labels for individual purposes like Bank, Job/Resumes, Friends, Forums
(b) Storage of our own files as attachments in separate labels
This would be the way to go, because
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
) One separate email for each purpose as listed above.
would drive you nuts, sooner or later. Just imagine, I'd have to use anotherr email for codeproject, facebook, xing, youtube, my hoster, the phone provider, two banks, friends & family, job, 9gag and so on. Then again
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
(I often see this as being monopolized and/or all eggs in the same basket)
would drive you nuts. How can I differ between about 10 to 15 email providers and different email addresses? You should rather pick one or two trustful providers (GMail and Outlook (Former Hotmail) by Microsoft).
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
- Backup of an email account to another with a good storage. However care need to be taken that the contents do not go obsolete..
No need in my case because a data loss would cause a shit storm coming over both Google and Microsoft if they start loosing emails. Call it naive, but I believe my data is save up there. I personally differ emails just into three categories: - Personal (Family, friends, job, frequently used pages as Xing, Facebook and CodeProject) - Accounts (Not so frequently used pages which might send me newsletters I don't want) - Others (Every other stuff where I am 99.9999% sure I'll never ever need it again)
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
this can serve as a CP Survey idea.
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- One good provider like Yahoo/Google:
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Today me and a couple of my friends had an interesting discussion during lunch. Just thought would share a snippet of the same. How many email accounts would you consider manageable for an individual. A few perceptions are: 1) One good provider like Yahoo/Google: (a) Labels for individual purposes like Bank, Job/Resumes, Friends, Forums (b) Storage of our own files as attachments in separate labels 2) One separate email for each purpose as listed above. Would you again consider a single provider (I often see this as being monopolized and/or all eggs in the same basket) or depending upon the importance of each label, apportion it among different providers? 3) Backup of an email account to another with a good storage. However care need to be taken that the contents do not go obsolete.. I think more than a Lounge post, this can serve as a CP Survey idea. Nevertheless, just thought would initiate a brainstorming on the same.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!I have just one. And for registering in some shadow places that require an email I just use email addresses I gathered from the Lounge during the years.
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Today me and a couple of my friends had an interesting discussion during lunch. Just thought would share a snippet of the same. How many email accounts would you consider manageable for an individual. A few perceptions are: 1) One good provider like Yahoo/Google: (a) Labels for individual purposes like Bank, Job/Resumes, Friends, Forums (b) Storage of our own files as attachments in separate labels 2) One separate email for each purpose as listed above. Would you again consider a single provider (I often see this as being monopolized and/or all eggs in the same basket) or depending upon the importance of each label, apportion it among different providers? 3) Backup of an email account to another with a good storage. However care need to be taken that the contents do not go obsolete.. I think more than a Lounge post, this can serve as a CP Survey idea. Nevertheless, just thought would initiate a brainstorming on the same.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!I have a .live account for most things, my work email under their domain, my own personal company email and a gmail account for tying up all my calendars and samsung account stuff. I also have a few 'deadzone' emails that I give out for online marketing rubbish and I use guerilla mail from time to time.
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Today me and a couple of my friends had an interesting discussion during lunch. Just thought would share a snippet of the same. How many email accounts would you consider manageable for an individual. A few perceptions are: 1) One good provider like Yahoo/Google: (a) Labels for individual purposes like Bank, Job/Resumes, Friends, Forums (b) Storage of our own files as attachments in separate labels 2) One separate email for each purpose as listed above. Would you again consider a single provider (I often see this as being monopolized and/or all eggs in the same basket) or depending upon the importance of each label, apportion it among different providers? 3) Backup of an email account to another with a good storage. However care need to be taken that the contents do not go obsolete.. I think more than a Lounge post, this can serve as a CP Survey idea. Nevertheless, just thought would initiate a brainstorming on the same.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!I've had a few emails over the years. Some I've abandoned, others I've setup to forward to my new email address. Most recently, I have started using Exchange Online and have email setup with my custom domain names. I also have unlimited "aliases", so I have a few different email addresses at a few different domains that I can use to recieve mail. However, I can only send mail from one of them (at a time). For any emails worth keeping, I sort them into folders on my local hard drive, which gets backed up automatically with Time Machine.
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Today me and a couple of my friends had an interesting discussion during lunch. Just thought would share a snippet of the same. How many email accounts would you consider manageable for an individual. A few perceptions are: 1) One good provider like Yahoo/Google: (a) Labels for individual purposes like Bank, Job/Resumes, Friends, Forums (b) Storage of our own files as attachments in separate labels 2) One separate email for each purpose as listed above. Would you again consider a single provider (I often see this as being monopolized and/or all eggs in the same basket) or depending upon the importance of each label, apportion it among different providers? 3) Backup of an email account to another with a good storage. However care need to be taken that the contents do not go obsolete.. I think more than a Lounge post, this can serve as a CP Survey idea. Nevertheless, just thought would initiate a brainstorming on the same.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!I have one main email account(gmail using plenty of labels to archive and store email) , I use thunderbird on my desktop computer to download the emails via pop(as a backup) - this computer is then imaged regularly.
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Today me and a couple of my friends had an interesting discussion during lunch. Just thought would share a snippet of the same. How many email accounts would you consider manageable for an individual. A few perceptions are: 1) One good provider like Yahoo/Google: (a) Labels for individual purposes like Bank, Job/Resumes, Friends, Forums (b) Storage of our own files as attachments in separate labels 2) One separate email for each purpose as listed above. Would you again consider a single provider (I often see this as being monopolized and/or all eggs in the same basket) or depending upon the importance of each label, apportion it among different providers? 3) Backup of an email account to another with a good storage. However care need to be taken that the contents do not go obsolete.. I think more than a Lounge post, this can serve as a CP Survey idea. Nevertheless, just thought would initiate a brainstorming on the same.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!I have many accounts (>10) and I am using the tool in my signature to instantly search/sort or dynamically classify them and to send e-mails via any of them. For programers who knows what SQL is, it really not hard to use..
Having way too many emails to deal with? Try our SQLized solution: Email Aggregation Manager[^] which gets your email sorted, found and organized beyond known precision.
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I have just one. And for registering in some shadow places that require an email I just use email addresses I gathered from the Lounge during the years.
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet! Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
I have 4 email addresses with Yahoo, Google, Hotmail (or should I say Outlook) and so on. Few other email ids are dropped out as I forgot about them. I subscribe for news lists with different ids. So it works for me with this kind of setup.
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Today me and a couple of my friends had an interesting discussion during lunch. Just thought would share a snippet of the same. How many email accounts would you consider manageable for an individual. A few perceptions are: 1) One good provider like Yahoo/Google: (a) Labels for individual purposes like Bank, Job/Resumes, Friends, Forums (b) Storage of our own files as attachments in separate labels 2) One separate email for each purpose as listed above. Would you again consider a single provider (I often see this as being monopolized and/or all eggs in the same basket) or depending upon the importance of each label, apportion it among different providers? 3) Backup of an email account to another with a good storage. However care need to be taken that the contents do not go obsolete.. I think more than a Lounge post, this can serve as a CP Survey idea. Nevertheless, just thought would initiate a brainstorming on the same.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!Although I'm not nearly organized enough to do so, I think that crating several accounts on a personal domain for different purposes makes good sense. Hell, I'm paying for the domain, and it comes with unlimited accounts, so why not use them? Because I'm lazy, says the Magic 8-Ball... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
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Although I'm not nearly organized enough to do so, I think that crating several accounts on a personal domain for different purposes makes good sense. Hell, I'm paying for the domain, and it comes with unlimited accounts, so why not use them? Because I'm lazy, says the Magic 8-Ball... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
The hosting I set up simply forwards all mail to anything@mydomain.com to the same email account So I can happily give people any old email address (I just have to be careful when I reply!) Its a good way of giving the impression that the company is bigger than it is really without having to go to the bother of setting up real email addresses.
MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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Today me and a couple of my friends had an interesting discussion during lunch. Just thought would share a snippet of the same. How many email accounts would you consider manageable for an individual. A few perceptions are: 1) One good provider like Yahoo/Google: (a) Labels for individual purposes like Bank, Job/Resumes, Friends, Forums (b) Storage of our own files as attachments in separate labels 2) One separate email for each purpose as listed above. Would you again consider a single provider (I often see this as being monopolized and/or all eggs in the same basket) or depending upon the importance of each label, apportion it among different providers? 3) Backup of an email account to another with a good storage. However care need to be taken that the contents do not go obsolete.. I think more than a Lounge post, this can serve as a CP Survey idea. Nevertheless, just thought would initiate a brainstorming on the same.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep! -
Today me and a couple of my friends had an interesting discussion during lunch. Just thought would share a snippet of the same. How many email accounts would you consider manageable for an individual. A few perceptions are: 1) One good provider like Yahoo/Google: (a) Labels for individual purposes like Bank, Job/Resumes, Friends, Forums (b) Storage of our own files as attachments in separate labels 2) One separate email for each purpose as listed above. Would you again consider a single provider (I often see this as being monopolized and/or all eggs in the same basket) or depending upon the importance of each label, apportion it among different providers? 3) Backup of an email account to another with a good storage. However care need to be taken that the contents do not go obsolete.. I think more than a Lounge post, this can serve as a CP Survey idea. Nevertheless, just thought would initiate a brainstorming on the same.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!I do prefer the idea of one email myself and I use mine for multiple purposes. I like the fact that Gmail allows you to add a period somewhere to differentiate between your emails. However, when replying from one of those, it only allows you to reply from your one true email account and that sort of defeats the purpose of using the period. I really wish they'd fix that.
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I currently have 5 email addresses with 3 different providers, as well a work address. I run all my social networking from one and the others are for things from banking to personal business.
Perhaps I believe this would be a manageable proposition.
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I do prefer the idea of one email myself and I use mine for multiple purposes. I like the fact that Gmail allows you to add a period somewhere to differentiate between your emails. However, when replying from one of those, it only allows you to reply from your one true email account and that sort of defeats the purpose of using the period. I really wish they'd fix that.
Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
it only allows you to reply from your one true email account and that sort of defeats the purpose of using the period. I really wish they'd fix that.
Outlook has something called email alias. But that is buggy too when it comes to replying. Sometimes the from is populated correctly and it fails at at times. Worse yet, on occasions, I have seen the from dropdown is not populated with the aliases properly.
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The hosting I set up simply forwards all mail to anything@mydomain.com to the same email account So I can happily give people any old email address (I just have to be careful when I reply!) Its a good way of giving the impression that the company is bigger than it is really without having to go to the bother of setting up real email addresses.
MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
_Maxxx_ wrote:
forwards all mail to anything@mydomain.com
A 'catch-all'? But wouldn't that mean getting a lot of spam and junk too?
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep! -
Although I'm not nearly organized enough to do so, I think that crating several accounts on a personal domain for different purposes makes good sense. Hell, I'm paying for the domain, and it comes with unlimited accounts, so why not use them? Because I'm lazy, says the Magic 8-Ball... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
Roger Wright wrote:
and it comes with unlimited accounts, so why not use them?
Yes. But the prime question is dependency on multiple of these entities on the long run.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep! -
I've had a few emails over the years. Some I've abandoned, others I've setup to forward to my new email address. Most recently, I have started using Exchange Online and have email setup with my custom domain names. I also have unlimited "aliases", so I have a few different email addresses at a few different domains that I can use to recieve mail. However, I can only send mail from one of them (at a time). For any emails worth keeping, I sort them into folders on my local hard drive, which gets backed up automatically with Time Machine.
AspDotNetDev wrote:
I've had a few emails over the years. Some I've abandoned, others I've setup to forward to my new email address.
I did this exercise a few months back too.
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
forwards all mail to anything@mydomain.com
A 'catch-all'? But wouldn't that mean getting a lot of spam and junk too?
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!Well, if a bot sends mail to aaaaaaaaa@mydomain.com and aaaaaaaaab@mydomain.com etc. then I'll get a lot of copies of the same spam, I guess - but that hasn't happened. I only use the email address for business - and just use different variations (sales@, admin@ etc.) but they all come to me. So far (touch wood!) spam hasn't been a problem at all.
MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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Today me and a couple of my friends had an interesting discussion during lunch. Just thought would share a snippet of the same. How many email accounts would you consider manageable for an individual. A few perceptions are: 1) One good provider like Yahoo/Google: (a) Labels for individual purposes like Bank, Job/Resumes, Friends, Forums (b) Storage of our own files as attachments in separate labels 2) One separate email for each purpose as listed above. Would you again consider a single provider (I often see this as being monopolized and/or all eggs in the same basket) or depending upon the importance of each label, apportion it among different providers? 3) Backup of an email account to another with a good storage. However care need to be taken that the contents do not go obsolete.. I think more than a Lounge post, this can serve as a CP Survey idea. Nevertheless, just thought would initiate a brainstorming on the same.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!I have three primary email addresses. Work - Work stuff Personal - Friends and Family use this, banking Yahoo - which is what I use to sign up for stuff. Which I never ever read. I go in there once a month or so and just delete everything. I do have my own domain and email server sooo. I get to control what gets sent to me as well. Kind of nice that.
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Today me and a couple of my friends had an interesting discussion during lunch. Just thought would share a snippet of the same. How many email accounts would you consider manageable for an individual. A few perceptions are: 1) One good provider like Yahoo/Google: (a) Labels for individual purposes like Bank, Job/Resumes, Friends, Forums (b) Storage of our own files as attachments in separate labels 2) One separate email for each purpose as listed above. Would you again consider a single provider (I often see this as being monopolized and/or all eggs in the same basket) or depending upon the importance of each label, apportion it among different providers? 3) Backup of an email account to another with a good storage. However care need to be taken that the contents do not go obsolete.. I think more than a Lounge post, this can serve as a CP Survey idea. Nevertheless, just thought would initiate a brainstorming on the same.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!I use gmail and have personal.l.d.k.p.c.o.g.s and professional.l.d.k.p.c.o.g.s accounts. I keep an account for each of the software technologies I'm interested or proficient and do likewise for personal interests or projects. I have an email address and a SeaMonkey or FireFox profile for each. I set the masterpassword to something familiar for each and let the password remembrel do it's thing. This works for me.