How many email accounts/addresses are better?
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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.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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.
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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.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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.
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 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! -
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?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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! -
_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?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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.
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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.
Michael T. Bee [ITProf Sempris] wrote:
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.
For me, a separate Todolist (ToDoList 6.6.4 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks[^]) file maintains the passwords and accounts. Optionally the encrypt plugin comes in handy when sharing it between computers through email attachments.
Michael T. Bee [ITProf Sempris] wrote:
l.d.k.p.c.o.g.s
Is this an acronym for something?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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! -
Michael T. Bee [ITProf Sempris] wrote:
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.
For me, a separate Todolist (ToDoList 6.6.4 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks[^]) file maintains the passwords and accounts. Optionally the encrypt plugin comes in handy when sharing it between computers through email attachments.
Michael T. Bee [ITProf Sempris] wrote:
l.d.k.p.c.o.g.s
Is this an acronym for something?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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!Like you I have 4 or 5 accounts created for specific purposes. And a few years back I created one 'shared' gmail account (with my son) which we NEVER use. In fact, if the inbox gets a message we know the gmail sold or breached the address somehow (hasn't happened yet). It's sole purpose is to host 'draft messages' in which we communicate sensitive info we don't want to chance in normal email transmissions. If you never touch the 'send' button, ears are never alerted. It may sound a bit paranoid, but it works as intended. BTW, I got the idea from a movie 10 or more years ago - just can't remember which one.
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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.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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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!If you ignore the email accounts that come "bundled" with using their service (e.g. I have a yahoo email because I have a yahoo account, but I don't use it for email).. - A main account (personal correspondence, trusted sites) - One for untrusted (potential spam sources, throw away registrations) - One for anonymous (things I don't want [too obviously] associated with "me" by email address) - Domain registration (not putting my real address into WHOIS) - Temporary site-specific spam-check address(es) (for "unknown" sites that I'd rather use my main account, but need to see if I get spam first) - Maybe a few others if I need a second account on some site (which requires a unique email)