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29 June 2006
Ask the bunnies part two: How many gmail addresses do you have? How do you manage them?
I have about 10, 3 of which are spamcatchers or other registration-whoring catch buckets.
1 is all work, 1 is for art/hobbies, 1 is play (the one I use here and on MeFi), 3 are email list/group managers, and the last one is for noncritical news and alerts and stuff.
I have two gmail accounts but I don't use them. They are only there for the times when my hosted box is down. I run my own mail server with my customized SpamAssassin rules, and I prefer a proper offline "fat" mail client. I can't stand webmail, and I scoff at gmail's pathetic attempts to implement threading and filtering. Wake me up when you can tag/organize by arbitrary headers and not just subject/to/from, and when threads are displayed as trees and not linearly. I am a heavy user of email, at the moment I have 3.13 GB of messages in a number of folders, some of which have 75k message in them. All of it is nicely sorted, threaded, and instantly available for reading without any waiting for the network to load.
I've got two. One is for archiving my lj comments (they add up over the course of years; searchability is a plus). The other I use for official purposes (e.g. resume), and only check when expecting to hear about a job prospect (which is to say, never).
Two. One for anonymous purposes-my Konolia one, one with my real name-which I mostly use to hear from my son and such. My other main address is a hotmail addy.
I have four. The most heavily-used is logged in on Firefox. The second most heavily-used is logged in on IE. If I used the others much I might install Mozilla or Opera and keep one logged in there.
Two, one for my various "muddgirl" dealings and one as a .forward for emails sent to my old undergraduate address (as well as to deal with my parents, go figure).
This doesn't include my work email address, my home email address (For Official Business), and a yahoo address I only recently stopped checking.
I have one gmail that I don't use. I use SpamGourmet when I have to register an email address that I don't want to get any mail from. (It's great because you can just make them up off the top of your head.)
I have two Yahoo addresses, one for mailing lists and such, and then my main, real, actual mailbox.
I've got two Gmail accounts--one's used for almost everything (including forwarded email from a couple places), and the other for work/academia/whatnot-related stuff.
I have two. One with my full name which I use for anything official. One with my user name, which I use for some forums (forae?), shopping, etc. It's also used if I want to send a picture to the office. Attachments are stripped by my office email server, but I can access gmail via the web and copy any attachments onto my hard drive at work. I also have both accounts set up through Mailwasher, AVG and Outlook Express.
Yes, jrossi4r, I also use one of my gmail addresses for things like airline etickets, travel insurance policy, scan of my passport, glasses prescription, in case of emergency. As well as another copy on a pen drive. Cautious, or what?
Two. One is my real name but is rarely (ever?) used and the other is silverbees which is used for most net stuff. Both are fowarded to my full name isp addy on OE (that one is used for family and official stuff - gov't, immigration, etc.).
Five, although I'm thinking of adding a sixth. One is a secondary personal address, two are active accounts for sites I run, another is a shared staff account for another site, and the last is for a site that hasn't launched yet. The sixth would be for archival purposes.
Two, one for personal correspondence, community Web sites, and some low-volume personal-interest mailing lists. I check that at least every day. The other is for professional correspondence, and several very high volume, professional topic mailing lists (like 600 messages a folder). I check that every week or two unless I'm expecting something. Gmail has been great handling the large lists.
The feature where you can change your sender information, so you look like you're sending from another address, is great. I have it set up in both accounts.
I have four or five. I watch some of them using Gmail Manager for Firefox.
One thing I hate about Gmail is the editing keys, which interfere with FoxyTunes. I use them too much and so I would end up trying to select some text, and moving my music to the last track or whatnot.
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