Quote Originally Posted by IanP View Post
Your email said . "Wow. If I have that many, I wouldn’t get anything done but check mail".


doesn't that depend on
  1. How much traffic you get
  2. how much relevant traffic you get
  3. how you manage it.
I used to have 8+ POP3/IMAP accounts but years ago I came to the conclusion that it was too much hassle - especially when I needed to set the accounts up on a new computer. (I was actively beta testing Windows back then.) This was before search folders - I either had to dump everything in one inbox or filter to folders, then look in a long list of folders for new mail.

I wanted my life back and embraced KISS principles - I forwarded everything to one address. I now have 4 mailboxes I use regularly - 2 business (Exchange), 1 personal (gmail), 1 for posting in forums (msn). I have send as permission on another 6 or so addresses on Exchange - mail to these addresses is forwarded to me and if i forget to change the From address, oh well. It's not like my addresses aren't easily found on the internet.

I used to have the two business addresses in one exchange account and always replied from one address, but recently split them into 2 mailboxes since outlook 2010 supports 2 exchange server accounts. One is in Ex2010, one in Ex2007.