Someone argued to me that texting is more convenient than email because people have only one phone number but several email accounts. Do people actually not forward all their accounts to one main one?
Posted Jul 27, 2010, 1:07 AM UTC
I have three distinct and separate email accounts. One I use mostly for business, one for personal use, and one strictly for reference when I order stuff online.
This keeps the spam and ads down on the personal and business accounts, and keeps my business and personal email addresses separate so I don't accidentally send something to a client that might end up being embarrassing.
Likewise, but I use a catchall address for online commerce. [email protected], etc - that way I know who sold my email address.
I don't get this. Can u please explain? Tks.
When you have control of an entire domain (like thelilacgirl.com) you can tell it to accept email for every possible username on that domain, and forward it to a specific account. That way you can simply make up email addresses as you go along and receive email sent to them. I use that to make an address for every online merchant I use so I can tell from the recipient address whether they passed on my email address. If I get email to [email protected] from Walmart, Amazon gave my email address to Walmart.
If you have a gmail address you can also make up aliases - [email protected] delivers to [email protected] and preserves the full address.
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my question. I still don't get it, actually, but I will do some further research based on what you wrote, and hopefully will understand. Thank you again. :)
Indeed, I learned my lesson when I sent some really trivial stuff to everyone on my contact list except for the people I didn't want to see it, of course.
Unfortunately I didn't see all the people that I didn't want to see what I was sending. <confusing sentence
I do the same except that I use one for Business, one for personal and one for gaming.
I have a couple different ones for different reasons, but they all forward to a Gmail account, and Gmail gives you the option of choosing the e-mail address you want to use when replying. There's also a setting where you automatically reply from the address the e-mail went to, so you're unlikely to make a mistake.
Exactly, I thought more people did this. I guess not. It sounds horrible having so many accounts.
1 junk account that I give out to sign up for stuff, to give to people that I would rather not have my normal email address, etc.
1 'real' email address that I use for transactions and family
2 other former 'real' email addresses that I keep for the occasional email that comes through.
1 that I have never really used, but a friend is seemingly unable to email me at any other address, despite me replying to him from a different email address.
1 that for some inexplicable reason I have never used and can never remember the damn password.
I could forward my 6 addresses to another one, but why bother? Window's Live Mail does a decent enough job of managing those email addresses.
That's about me too. Upboat.
Unfortunately yes... People don't listen when you ask them to delete one and put another in their address book. It's like you physically have to go to their phone or computer and change it yourself.. it's frustrating as hell.
1 for work. 1 for personal. 1 specifically for junk. 1 for people I only sort of like.
Absolutely. One account at work, two personal accounts, and...
$ wc -l /etc/mail/virtusertable
211 /etc/mail/virtusertable
...quite a few aliases. On top of that, one account each from Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo; I rarely check those (and I don't forward them anywhere) but keep them around for services that like to require a specific mail provider.
Yup. I peaked at about a dozen active address (for different jobs and whatnot) and 4 distinct mailboxes. I'm at about 5 and 3 now. I prefer to keep certain things more separate than just filtered email folders would allow.
one school e-mail that I use for school/professional affairs, and my personal e-mail for everything else.
I've got several. Here's why;
I've got one email that's strictly for friends and family. It is usually filled with inane crap that has been forwarded through my mother in law.
I've got another email for all of my work/purchasing/bill payments/respectable stuff. It's the one I keep a close eye on because stuff that hits that account is probably important.
Finally, I have my catch all anonymous junk mail account, which is used to sign up for stuff, subscribe to newsletters, etc. I check it one every few days, usually just to empty the inbox and shovel out the prodigious amounts of spam that accumulate there.
Oh, and I also have several other one off accounts that will be used and then discarded.
inane crap that has been forwarded through my mother in law.
I am convinces that 90% or more of internet traffic in a 24 hour period can be described thusly.
I got hotmail for messenger, and subscribing to things where I'm pretty sure i'm gonna get spamed alot. I also have two account in gmail, one for personal use, and another for ebay/paypal. Since I use Thunderbird, I get them all in a nice little app, same thing with my cellphone
No definitely not. There are no unicorns either. Santa, the elves and all the unicorns killed each other off in a vicious turf battle.
I've got half a dozen emails that are completely unrelated from each other.
You never know where you're gonna end up, and frankly, I'd rather keep my multiple online personas separate from each other. If they ever found out about themselves...oh man. It would not be pretty.
A George divided against itself cannot stand.