Like many on the interweb, over the years I have collected one or two email accounts. Most of them come free with registration to a service or site that I use for some piece of functionality (think schools, flickr, instant messenger, storefronts, etc…) – others are just part of registering a domain and publishing a site.
Managing this mess of accounts has always proved to be a challenge typically solved (I use solved loosely here) with the use of Sendmail/Qmail/Postfix virtual hosting + Thunderbird and IMAP/POP3 aggregating into a single set of folders on my desktop. In the past couple of years I have found myself using and preferring Google Mail for my personal accounts, both with their @gmail brand for mailing lists and newsgroups and also with the Google Apps for my custom domain hosting. While this has given me simple care free hosting it hasn’t solved the underlying issue of just too many accounts to manage and filter through and the time drain involved.
So today in an attempt at efficiency I have reshaped my inbound email to simplified email forwarding modeled after pobox.com (I thought about using their service but it literally costs me $0 to host on one of our many existing email servers). For the time being I will use my @gmail account as my primary personal inbox while maintaining my @clarksys account for permanency.
If you’d like to send me an email (click here to see my address) – you could probably guess it anyway.
