Advice on managing multiple pseudonym email accounts

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Advice on managing multiple pseudonym email accounts

Postby BrianMeade54 » Thu 01 Apr, 2004 3:45 pm

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I currently have:
OS: Windows 2000
Mail client: NS Communicator 4.8
Anti-virus: McAffe
Anti-spam: McAfee

Due to the large number of Spam messages I receive every day,
I plan to create email sub-accounts for different types of
correspondence; e.g., zoology research, financial correspondence, etc.
About 10 sub-accounts in all. These sub-accounts are disposable in
that I can replace each with another email account should the spam
level begin to rise again. Another approach might be to create a
"white" list for that sub-account in order to restrict incoming mail
to known correspondents.

I'd like to:
view all the inbox email from the various sub-accounts
without having to login 10 different times. I'd like an address book
globally accessible by all the sub-accounts. Finally, I'd like to
reply to each email with the specific email address created
for a given sub-account.

I don't think this wish list is possible with my current email client.
My friends mention that Outlook has all these features and more.
I'm reluctant to use Outlook. I've stuck with NS 4.x clients over
the years because of their rabbitt-like speed and smaller memory footprint.

Also, there's likely more hacker interest in a MS product than
in a product used by what some may feel is a shrinking NS community
of users. For that reason, I'm wondering if a newer version
NS mail client might satisfy the above wish list.
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Postby Fulvio » Sat 03 Apr, 2004 10:42 pm

You may want to consider Netscape 7.1, which comes with a built-in Spam( or Junk control), and almost limitless mail accounts, but no rabbit speed.
You could create Filters if you have a good idea of the type of e-mail address and subject which you want to allow. As you create a filter, you can direct the mail in a specific subfolder. But, it is a lot of work, and its effectiveness is questionable.
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