OT: eMail eVerywhere
OT: eMail eVerywhere
Out of curiosity, How many email accounts would you have to access over the period of a week?
I'm amazed with the complexity of my day when I sit at the computer to check my mail. I have strictly tried to adhere to the one email account ever since I signed up with yahoo many years ago. I'm not with Gmail but with my work, Uni, Webspace and internet service provider accounts I'm really getting annoyed with the paperless office. By the time I actually check my non-virtual mailbox I'm worn out.
*I'm not referring to Private Message accounts or similar. Just Outlook and webbased mail accounts.
When you post please indicate how long it generally takes to check and answer your mail boxes on average and the main reason why you have to change email accounts.
Cheers in advance
I'm amazed with the complexity of my day when I sit at the computer to check my mail. I have strictly tried to adhere to the one email account ever since I signed up with yahoo many years ago. I'm not with Gmail but with my work, Uni, Webspace and internet service provider accounts I'm really getting annoyed with the paperless office. By the time I actually check my non-virtual mailbox I'm worn out.
*I'm not referring to Private Message accounts or similar. Just Outlook and webbased mail accounts.
When you post please indicate how long it generally takes to check and answer your mail boxes on average and the main reason why you have to change email accounts.
Cheers in advance
The ball rolling...
I have my main Gmail and now a work and Uni email. Thats makes 3.
Generally I receive about 10 - 15 mails a day, 5 requiring some response and I'm done in about 25-35 minutes.
I don't use Thunderbird or Outlook. I just have Firefox set up to open each mail account up as a tab. Before this it would take me up to an hour to check all these accounts.
I have my main Gmail and now a work and Uni email. Thats makes 3.
Generally I receive about 10 - 15 mails a day, 5 requiring some response and I'm done in about 25-35 minutes.
I don't use Thunderbird or Outlook. I just have Firefox set up to open each mail account up as a tab. Before this it would take me up to an hour to check all these accounts.
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I check 5 regularly
1 ISP mail acct ( over 10 years old and now so full of spam it is useless...about 250+ spam a day)
1 Gmail Acct
1 Work email acct
2 cachegurus.com mail accts for various usages (one for website signups/contact with unknown ppl, one for server/hosting logs/errors/updates and stuff in general)
I use Thunderbird right now, but I'll probably switch over to Evolution or some such doover when I do my next kubuntu install...
1 ISP mail acct ( over 10 years old and now so full of spam it is useless...about 250+ spam a day)
1 Gmail Acct
1 Work email acct
2 cachegurus.com mail accts for various usages (one for website signups/contact with unknown ppl, one for server/hosting logs/errors/updates and stuff in general)
I use Thunderbird right now, but I'll probably switch over to Evolution or some such doover when I do my next kubuntu install...
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Hmm... lessee....
theUMP's email stays on gmail and I only access it via the web interface.
I grab my mackereth.net "catch-all" account into another gmail account, to filter out some spam and to have a permanent off-site copy of that mail, then that gets pulled into Thunderbird at home.
(I also get to see that as an RSS feed on my usual Google homepage at work.)
A couple of other gmails get pulled into TBird as well, and a couple of specialised mackereth.net accounts (including bearleft) that also get accessed by my wife's computer(s), so they stay on the server for a few days.
So, Thunderbird is where I see most of my mail, except for the reviewer stuff.
Oh, and I'm stuck with Lotus Notes for work email. Lotus is probably a good multi-purpose tool, but we really only use the mail client part of it, and that sucks!
theUMP's email stays on gmail and I only access it via the web interface.
I grab my mackereth.net "catch-all" account into another gmail account, to filter out some spam and to have a permanent off-site copy of that mail, then that gets pulled into Thunderbird at home.
(I also get to see that as an RSS feed on my usual Google homepage at work.)
A couple of other gmails get pulled into TBird as well, and a couple of specialised mackereth.net accounts (including bearleft) that also get accessed by my wife's computer(s), so they stay on the server for a few days.
So, Thunderbird is where I see most of my mail, except for the reviewer stuff.
Oh, and I'm stuck with Lotus Notes for work email. Lotus is probably a good multi-purpose tool, but we really only use the mail client part of it, and that sucks!
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I use 3 mail a/cs: main ISP mail, 4wd club mail and another personal mail. I use Mailwasher Pro to check all three accounts and download from there. I can delete any spam (which, touch wood, there isn't too much of nowadays as they get filtered out by the ISP) or delete mail messages that have been sent twice etc. MWPro will then download the messages to the relevant mailboxes. Works for me. Using Thunderbird since the computer rebuild instead of Netscape mail - anything but Microsoft! Have got gmail and yahoo mail but rarely check them nowadays.
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I too am stuck with lotus what a pain in the A**(small donkey) but like they say 'thats why you get the big bucks' LOL...
As for time spent checking about 1/2 to 1 hour at work and same at home , then a quick check of the 3 forums which I am on then my ebay account, and that is usually it,, wife watches crap tv anyway!!!!
I too am stuck with lotus what a pain in the A**(small donkey) but like they say 'thats why you get the big bucks' LOL...
As for time spent checking about 1/2 to 1 hour at work and same at home , then a quick check of the 3 forums which I am on then my ebay account, and that is usually it,, wife watches crap tv anyway!!!!
I have 6 accounts but I do it the really easy way All 6 run through Outlook Express. All I have to do in the morning is open up Outlook Express and mail from all 6 folders downloads and I start checking, deleting etc. while it downloads. Normally takes around 3 mins to download. In the morning I have an average of about 12 emails overnight.
Throughout the day my mail downloads from all 6 automatically and on average I'd get at least 20 emails throughout the day until I turn off my pc at night. So, I'm looking at about anywhere from 32 to 40 emails a day.
Half of that number would comprise of News, Ebay notices, Lotto Results and Competitions. Competitions play a big part in how my email runs. You see, I get a lot of competitions sent directly to my inbox and the competitions where there is no age restriction, I enter all 4 family members with 4 separate addresses.
The rest of my email is messages from family and friends which require responding to. It is not unusual to find messages in my main inbox from 2 months ago that I haven't got around to answering yet.
What I love about email is that it has opened up the doors to so much more communication between people who you probably would have lost touch with in the past. Add to that, that I now regularly speak to cousins who I only used to see once a year. However, it has its down side. Just yesterday I was sitting there rushing through about 4 emails because they needed a response and they needed it that day. It can be hard to find time to give personal emails the quality time they need.
Anyhow, that's us Bronze. Hope you enjoyed! lol
MrsMix
Throughout the day my mail downloads from all 6 automatically and on average I'd get at least 20 emails throughout the day until I turn off my pc at night. So, I'm looking at about anywhere from 32 to 40 emails a day.
Half of that number would comprise of News, Ebay notices, Lotto Results and Competitions. Competitions play a big part in how my email runs. You see, I get a lot of competitions sent directly to my inbox and the competitions where there is no age restriction, I enter all 4 family members with 4 separate addresses.
The rest of my email is messages from family and friends which require responding to. It is not unusual to find messages in my main inbox from 2 months ago that I haven't got around to answering yet.
What I love about email is that it has opened up the doors to so much more communication between people who you probably would have lost touch with in the past. Add to that, that I now regularly speak to cousins who I only used to see once a year. However, it has its down side. Just yesterday I was sitting there rushing through about 4 emails because they needed a response and they needed it that day. It can be hard to find time to give personal emails the quality time they need.
Anyhow, that's us Bronze. Hope you enjoyed! lol
MrsMix
The other good points about email?
- It is cheaper than phoning or sending a text message
- You can just email someone if you don't want to get tied up in a conversation with them
- You can do it at 3.30am in the morning when you can't sleep because you have been up to your children. Sending someone an email at that hour isn't going to disturb them
My biggest pet hate? When someone rings you about something and they really could have just sent you an email because it wasn't that important. I don't know how many times my phones have rung while I have been cooking dinner, feeding the children or watching my favourite TV Shows. I then find that what the person rang for wasn't urgent and boy does that tick me off
- It is cheaper than phoning or sending a text message
- You can just email someone if you don't want to get tied up in a conversation with them
- You can do it at 3.30am in the morning when you can't sleep because you have been up to your children. Sending someone an email at that hour isn't going to disturb them
My biggest pet hate? When someone rings you about something and they really could have just sent you an email because it wasn't that important. I don't know how many times my phones have rung while I have been cooking dinner, feeding the children or watching my favourite TV Shows. I then find that what the person rang for wasn't urgent and boy does that tick me off
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We have multiple accounts on multiple mail servers. We do the same as Mrs Mix, and let Outlook handle the duties in one hit.
When we are away from the office our pda's or lappies automatically check for mail every 5 minutes and we also have them set to leave a copy on the server for the main machine to download for the archive later.
OT but has anyone else noticed how little spam there is over the past few weeks?
EG we used to get about 500-600 overnight and the filters catch 90% + and bin it.
Since 3 weeks ago maybe 4 to 5 overnight! Sounds like some spam king has been done big time!
When we are away from the office our pda's or lappies automatically check for mail every 5 minutes and we also have them set to leave a copy on the server for the main machine to download for the archive later.
OT but has anyone else noticed how little spam there is over the past few weeks?
EG we used to get about 500-600 overnight and the filters catch 90% + and bin it.
Since 3 weeks ago maybe 4 to 5 overnight! Sounds like some spam king has been done big time!