I realized when I was redesigning the site that I say a little too much. I make some extreme comments and in most cases I do not watch what I say for the simple reason I can say what I want. I don’t always think about the relationships and people involved and how what I say may cause a problem. I changed a couple of my previous posts for this very reason, and I felt bad that I wrote what I wrote the first time, it just seemed very unprofessional and childish of me. I am going to try to keep things on the right path from now on.

I received and email to the account I was given for the FTA project and it dawned on me, I have way way way too many email accounts. I have a number of domain names and want to keep email for each domain and I use each one for different projects so I have additional email addresses for each. If I have the email addresses act as an alias I cannot reply as that email address. This introduces headaches I could really do without. From my records I have about 15 email addresses and that my friends is too many, especially since I do not receive mail to every one of them on a daily basis. It is an extreme case, but as a techie, can you really live without having a lot of email addresses? Consider that you get a free one for Yahoo, AIM, Google, then you have your own domain and of course other projects, businesses. I don’t really use my Yahoo or AIM email accounts, but I have them.

Google introduced a while back POP3 retrieval so you can have it download mail for other accounts and you can send as that user. I think I am going to move to doing that with all of my accounts because it really would save a lot of time and hassle. Being able to send as that user would be a huge help too, but I don’t know how that could be done through a client, or how SPF records or whatever they are effect the abilities of that function.

I do know I am going to switch all the email for my domains to Google apps soon, since it saves the sent messages even if they are sent via Outlook or Thunderbird. That is the biggest drawback of webmail in my opinion, you cannot reference sent mail.