Far too many email accounts
Guess how many different email addresses I have?! Ok, I’ll just tell you. It’s ten. And I’m sure there might be one or two others lingering about that I’ve forgotten about.
Clearly that’s way too many and far too confusing for others. I’m getting increasing complaints from family members asking which address they should use to contact me.
To be fair, apart from my work email account, all the other email address automatically forward to one main account, but still, I think I’m in need of some consolidation.
At the moment, I’m looking to break down my emails into three accounts: Work, Personal, and Mosaic. Then I’ll have one dedicated email for each and encourage people to stop using any others. I will then look to keep my main Gmail account but simply as a backup where a copy of all emails sent to those three main account goes just in case.
Obviously my Work and Mosaic accounts are pretty set, but I am looking to use my .Mac (soon to be MobileMe) for personal emails.
The only potential complication to all this is that I do want to make the most of the new MobileMe push services for email, calendar, and contact updates. I don’t know what the setup of MobileMe is going to look like, but I may decide to route everything though MobileMe if I can’t attach my Work and Mosaic accounts to it. We’ll see!
I guess ultimately I’m saying all this to say that I’m trying to make a concerted effort to get on top of my email addresses and do some consolidation. I’ll keep you posted with how it goes!
What about you? Have you got too many email addresses?
Tags: Email, MobileMe, Mosaic