This isn’t earth-shattering or new, but I thought I’d share with all of you how I handle some of my email. If you’re hosting your own Wordpress blog, you have most likely bought a domain that it’s being hosted on. You probably also have an email address setup there like admin or your name or something. Personally, even though I’m good buddies with the guys that started the Squirrel Mail project, I find most email systems a little clunky and not fun to use. I’m a Gmail man myself and have forwarded my emails for my blogs over to a Gmail account.
This probably sounds like extra work and not a big deal, but it keeps me from having to log in somewhere else to check it. I should also add that I have 1 personal blog, 1 movie review blog, this blog, a podcast website and blog, and another blog I don’t post to very often anymore. So if you count alerts, notifications, fan/hate mail, etc….that can turn into a lot of email. So what I’ve done is setup forwarding on all of those mail accounts to one Gmail account of my choice. I’ve also used filtering and automatic labeling so I know exactly where these emails are coming from, and what they are for. I also have some of them auto-archived so they don’t clutter my inbox. Another cool feature with Gmail is I have the option to reply to these emails as the sender it was originally sent to. That means it looks like I logged into one of those accounts and replied. Add on the fact Gmail has lots of storage and great searching capabilities and what more could you want?
I know some people prefer email clients like Outlook and Thunderbird. Most of the people I know using these kinds of programs also download all their mail to one computer. I’m not a big fan of that because then I can’t check my mail from wherever I am. You also have the potential for losing all of your mail and contacts if your drive crashes. I know there are other email solutions out there and I know some of you are using them. Let us know how you like to manage multiple email accounts.
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