Tips for Managing Incoming Email

Anyone found a solution to the multi-address nightmare?

[pdivi]

I run several sites and each has its own email support address. I spend too much time toggling between email "profiles" to check mail. The reason I don't forward to a single profile is because I need my address in the reply to correspond to the site from which the request originated.

What I really need is an app. that will put email from multiple addresses into a single inbox, while maintaining the original "to" address in my reply. I know my version of Outlook doesn't support this. Anyone seen a program that does?

[rogerd]

Outlook and Outlook Express support multiple accounts. They will check all accounts, and maintain the "to" address when you reply.

[digitalv]

Outlook, Outlook Express, and Mozilla Thunderbird should all do what you're looking for. I've been using Thunderbird lately because I like the way it separates the incoming mail to separate folders by default, unlike Outlook Express where you have to create rules for that.

[photon]

Add Eudora to the list (they call them "personalities").

[jk3210]

>>because I need my address in the reply to correspond to the site from which the request originated<<

In Outlook Express you can select which of your accounts your reply comes from with a one click, regardless of which account the original message came to. It's pretty cool, actually.

[chodges84]

Yeah I use Outlok, but use folders for each site/department, so I can see exactly whats what, Sales, enquiries etc. And iut keeps the address that it was sent to.

btw I use Outlook XP (2002?)

Craig

[pdivi]

Thanks for the tips. I feel kind of ridiculous having asked for a feature that's commonly available in Outlook. I must be working off of a really old version.

I downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird to give it a try, since I've been really happy with Firefox. Microsoft has enough of my money already.

[eWhisper]

Is there a way in Outlook to have the signiture file based off the email address so I can just hit reply, Outlook looks at which email account it is, and then adds the appropriate sig file?

[Birdman]

Since you're looking for a new mail client, check out Opera M2 as well. It's sweet!

Here's a recent thread: [webmasterworld.com...]

[BwanaZulia]

I use Mail.app (on Mac OSX) and it works great. It created different inboxes/outboxes for each account and allows (with a small hack) to have each account have a different signature.

I also added on MailTemplate which has a customizable easy reply templates.

All in all with hundreds of mails a day it works great.

BZ

[roldar]

I've been forced to resort to checking all my email addresses through my Yahoo account. The problem with Thunderbird is that it saves all emails in the inbox in a single file.

Whenever I'm checking my emails and somebody sends me a virus, my antivirus software screens and catches the virus and then quarantines the file with my inbox in it. I lose every email in the inbox when this happens. The workaround suggested on the Mozilla Thunderbird forum was essentially that I turn off life antivirus protection (no thanks).

Anybody know of a decent email client that handles multiple accounts, and which saves individual emails in separate files? Checking everything through Yahoo is a very slow and cumbersome way that I've been forced to resort to.

[georgeek]

I too have collected many addresses over the years my solution is to use spamcop to aggregate them. Their server collects my emails (like [e-mail]) from clients servers and everywhere I have an email address, washes it with the filter settings I have set and forwards what's left to me at my business email address. Average this month is around 400 emails a day of which about 370 are spam. One or two false negatives a day and only two false positive ever. My current filter settings on spamcop are:

spamcop Blacklist bl.spamcop.net
SPEWS level 1 spews.relays.osirusoft.com
Osirusoft open relay inputs inputs.relays.osirusoft.com
ORDB open relays relays.ordb.org
Spamhaus Blacklist spamhaus.relays.osirusoft.com
South Korea korea.services.net
Osirusoft Open Proxies socks.relays.osirusoft.com
monkeys.com open proxies proxies.relays.monkeys.com
China cn.rbl.cluecentral.net
Nigeria nigeria.blackholes.us
Argentina argentina.blackholes.us
Brazil brazil.blackholes.us
And SpamAssassin Limit 8

It costs $30 a year and I would still use it if it cost ten times as much.