Two - one for personal and one for work, although my “work” email address is also a Yahoo account (with only 4 of us, we don’t have an email server).
An infinite number through a catch-all on a domain, but one that I use regularly there. Another on a different domain for a website I set up for a local museum. Hotmail, which I regularly use, and Yahoo/AOL/Gmail ones which I hardly ever look at.
Three: One work, one personal, and an older personal one that is the address I registered for Paypal, and I can’t figure out how to change it without going through this whole re-verification rigaramole. That one gets checked once every couple weeks, or when I send money through Paypal.
1 work e-mail
1 ISP e-mail
Hotmail/MSN
2 hotmail, 1 MSN (previous ISP). One may be deleted by now, since I don’t remember when I last logged in.
Yahoo
2 - 1 that I set up for friends, 1 that was for professional e-mail lists.
gmail
3 - 1 primary personal, 1 for a specific e-mail list that generates lots of mail daily and 1 for throw-away sort of stuff.
So thats at least 9, possibly 10 if the one hotmail still exists.
Two: work and uni
2 that I use daily; one of which is yahoo. I like yahoo because I can check it anytime, anywhere and I can email documents to myself for printing at work since I don’t have a printer at home.
Also, an old AOL address that I rarely check…thanks for the reminder!
About a hundred and twenty at the moment: I run my own mail server, and anyone I have to give an e-mail to gets a custom one all their own (business and places likely to spam, I mean – not Mom and Dad.)
They all redirect to a few common accounts until/unless the e-mail address starts receiving spam, then it gets cut off and doesn’t redirect to anywhere. As a bonus, I always know who sold my address.
At least seventeen. But I run several websites.
I’m ashamed to admit this, but I have no clue how to re-direct an email address.
My email system allows an unlimited number of separate mailboxes.
You just have to put a dot into the name, like uncircular.1@myisp.net
I never use the main name except for relatives. All site registrations get a separate number. Then if one of them sells the name to a list company I can just abandon it with a filter based on the number.
Seven. No, eight.
Nine?
…I’ll start again.
For my real name:
1 work account
1 home account
1 Excite.com account
For my Doper name:
1 home account (my provider gives 4 free address that all feed to the same account)
1 Excite.com account
Since getting a home account with my Doper name, the Excite accounts are pretty much only for registering to web sites.
Four: Personal, work, blog, junk
Three: one is my diminutive+maiden name, which is personal - stuff from my family and friends. Another with my full married name which is for “official” stuff - work and school. A third one for when I want to protect my identity (like here, although I make no secret about my first name).
Two ‘real’ ones with my ISP
Three Hotmail
Three Yahoo
Two Lycos
The difficulty is remembering all the passwords.
One at work.
Six at home.
Six:
One at work.
One for family/friends.
One for non-family professional use (also used by some friends).
One for IMing.
One for my ISP, that I never use.
One for random internet spam-type stuff.
Let’s see:
1 Yahoo
1 Hotmail (for spam and MSN Messenger)
3 GMail
1 AOL (came with my AIM login)
1 ISP
1 University account
Wow, only 8. Feels like I’m missing a couple.
Lets see…
1 .mil address (had a .gov one, but lost it when I joined the Army)
1 .co.uk address Not sure if this one is still active, never use it
1 .net My main address
1 .com Junk mail address
1 .co.ca address, not used, just part of my collection of different ass endings for my email to have.
1 .co.kr not even sure exactly what the full address is without looking it up. Supplied by my ISP.
So I guess 6. I might have some old hotmail, yahoo addresses, but I wouldn’t know what they might be.
-Otanx
- Any more would get way too confusing.
I do the very same thing. I’ve got about 5 domains and they all dump to a single email.
When I need to use a email address to signup for something I’ll use the domain name as the username. So, let’s say it was amazon.com the email I’d give them is amazon-com@mydomain.com
In one case I had my address sold off from a small music site. I sent the ower of the site an email and called him on it. He went nuts on me in the reply. Threatened to hack my servers, sue me for slander, etc.
I canceled my account on the site and set up a forward - all the email from that one address to his.