[ajprice]

And how many of those do you use?

I have Hotmail, Yahoo, .mac and just got a Gmail. .mac and Hotmail are the ones I mainly use, my Yahoo isn't doing anything but I got it as part of the BT Yahoo Broadband.

If I could put these accounts into OS X Mail I'd be sorted though, I'd rather have that than web based email, does anyone know if this can be done?

[ambush]

Gmail, Hotmail and my company's.

[historylme]

(2)Hot, (2)Yah, Earthlink, gmail.

6 that use, three that I check all the time.

[Big Mac]

Multiple business accounts (personal business as well as general corporate addresses that I manage), .Mac, Yahoo, Gmail. . . I'm going to eventually transition from .Mac to one of my personal domains, probably in the next decade some time.

I've been meaning to pose the following question to the Lounge: With the proliferation of personal and professional addresses, how can we possibly manage the constant barrage?

[Mastrap]

Multiple business accounts for my own company and for other people I do contract work for, personal domain and a gmail account that I haven't checked in month.

[DarwinX]

7, two of which I primairly use.

[E's Lil Theorem]

Poll?

I think I have 10+ nowadays. They all serve a purpose, though I only really care about four of them.

[alphasubzero949]

.Mac, school, Yahoo (throwaway)

[Angus_D]

my domain, gmail, opendarwin, softpress.

[turtle777]

264 Gazillion. My own domain with catch-all

-t

[Randman]

.Mac (personal)
work
gmail x 2 (one for Internet stuff such as this forum), another I'm just using to keep older emails at (wanted the domain name) For these, I have them set to forward all email to my .Mac so I can access them via Mail.app.
hotmail (don't use anymore)
yahoo (don't use anymore)

[wdlove]

I just have one E.Mail address with Earthlink. My wife has a separate address with .Mac.

[Link]

Oh gee.
1 yahoo, 2 SBC, 2 gmail, 1 netzero (tis' old), I'm sure there's more I could think of some other time.

[chris v]

Cute, parralax. If this were the BBQ, I would have expected that, but here it came out of left field.



Verrrry modderly of you.

[angelmb]

I have about ten and the one where I get more e-mails is only a 3 MB account LOL

[paul w]

I HATE hotmail. A couple months ago I neglected to check my mail in that account for a little over a month and I end up losing several years of old messages. I had been meaning to back them up somewhere but they're just...gone. I nearly cried.

So: laposte, free.fr, gmail, yahoo and perhaps my own domain's soon if I feel like setting that up.

[ajprice]

Poll? Well if I knew how to make a poll in a thread thats already started, i would make one now. But i just went to edit my first post, and there isn't a poll option . I was here thinking my 4 emails were excessive, but after reading these, I feel better now .

[JoshuaZ]

1) My school e-mail, which I'm currently phasing out
2) My .mac e-mail, which is primary
3) My gmail which I use for random things
4) A Spam gmail account for signing up for stuff

[Randman]

Originally Posted by paul w

I HATE hotmail. A couple months ago I neglected to check my mail in that account for a little over a month and I end up losing several years of old messages. I had been meaning to back them up somewhere but they're just...gone. I nearly cried.

So: laposte, free.fr, gmail, yahoo and perhaps my own domain's soon if I feel like setting that up.

A few months ago, I bit the bullet and forwarded all of the mail I had saved in the hotmail account to my gmail account.

[Randman]

Originally Posted by paul w

I HATE hotmail. A couple months ago I neglected to check my mail in that account for a little over a month and I end up losing several years of old messages. I had been meaning to back them up somewhere but they're just...gone. I nearly cried.

So: laposte, free.fr, gmail, yahoo and perhaps my own domain's soon if I feel like setting that up.

A few months ago, I bit the bullet and forwarded all of the mail I had saved in the hotmail account to my gmail account.

The only reason I keep the yahoo account is for free fantasy football.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by chris v

My email penis is this long:

<->

Pfff, mine is longer

<--->

-t

[Randman]

That's overdoing it a bit.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Randman

That's overdoing it a bit.

Seriously ?

-t

[ManOfSteal]

I have 7...no wait, 8....maybe 9....or 10...

I use 1.

[E's Lil Theorem]

This thread is really jacked-up in Firefox.

[turtle777]

Yeah, I guess thats my penis...

-t

[MacMan4000]

eleventy billion™

[JoshuaZ]

In before this thread becomes locked and or completely penis insane.

[Kenneth]

I see SPAM here...

Well..
Never checked:
1. Hotmail
2. Yahoo
3. Netscape
4. Spymac

Checks everyday:
1. .Mac x 2
2. my own domain x 2
3. Elltel ISP
4. Earthlink ISP
5. GMail
6. College student account

[ambush]

I so LOVE MacNN.

[turtle777]

^^^ Ack, but reading this in Firefox really suxx...

-t

[ghporter]

Hey chris_V and turtle! Edit those "email penis" posts so that people can look at this thread on a single monitor!!!! Bad posters! No cookies for you! Edit: Ok, that's better! Cookies are approved!

I have a few addresses.

Main ISP (with the option of up to five "child" addresses)
Yahoo
MSN/Hotmail (because I needed a "Passport," not because I use the darn thing!)
3 at Mail.com for disposability
1 at the university
1 at the community college (and I'm not even registered there yet!)

I used to have a work address too, but I'm retired now, so I don't anymore. I am SO glad of that! That address was nothing but trouble for me!

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by ghporter

Hey chris_V and turtle! Edit those "email penis" posts so that people can look at this thread on a single monitor!!!!

Are you asking me to chop my penis into pieces ?

-t

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by turtle777

Are you asking me to chop my penis into pieces ?

-t

Yup. Since it's digital anyway, you can think of it as being converted to packets for transport to some destination, rather than "dismemberment." And you can take that word any way you want to!

(Your and chris_v's posts make this thread about 15 times too wide for at least Firefox users, and probably others too. Cute, but kind of excessive.)

Edit: Thanks for fixing that. I don't know why, but those long lines of hyphens made things weird for some of us!

[brapper]

School, .mac, Gmail.
I just ditched hotmail and Spymac for good, and I ahve an excite account from way back when that gets about 100 spam messages a day. I use it when I need to use an email address, but I dont fully trust the company with my privacy.

[parallax]

School, Company, Lab

[Tesseract]

6, +/-

home
work (plus aliases)
gmail (my primary address)
other gmail (forwards to first gmail account)
old school (for another month)
new school (plus aliases)
yahoo (spamcatcher)

[davidflas]

2 Gmail, 1 yahoo. 1 .Mac 1 college

[Mr. Blur]

work
.mac + 2 aliases
netscape
gmail
local isp provided account

i actually use them all for various things....

[chris v]

Originally Posted by ghporter

Hey chris_V and turtle! Edit those "email penis" posts so that people can look at this thread on a single monitor!!!! Bad posters! No cookies for you! Edit: Ok, that's better! Cookies are approved!

Huh. It wrapped fine for me in Safari. I double-checked, then read the thread again a couple times. Worked fine on my end. Sorry 'bout that.

[taurus]

Just two.

My home ISP account for routine mail and a Yahoo account for eveything else.

-taurus

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by turtle777

Pfff, mine is longer

<--->

-t

parallax shrunk my email penis ! WTF ?

-t

[Randman]

Good for him. That was obnoxious.