How do you manage your mail?

JMH

JMH

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Yesterday, Microsoft announced that they will be doing away with “linked accounts”, the method of being able to switch from one account to another in Outlook.com without having to re-enter your login credentials. In reading through the comments on our post announcing the upcoming changes, what’s apparent is that we seem to all have multiple ways of managing our mail.

Recently, I’ve been trying to ween myself off of Windows Live and to step boldly (or not) into the brave new world of Windows 8. For most of this past year I’ve used Windows 8 as only kind of a “Windows 7 +”, jumping directly into the desktop and staying there, hanging on to Windows Live Mail (and Writer, which I do truly miss), and continuing to do things the old fashioned way. But after a computer refresh, I decided to try and give Windows 8 and its companion apps a go, with some surprisingly positive results.

Like many of you, I have multiple email accounts: a personal msn account, a couple of legacy accounts used mainly for “junk” (one I signed up for in the local library back in 1998, shortly after Microsoft bought HoTMaiL), a number of LiveSide accounts using Windows Live Admin Center (or Custom Domains, which is still working and available, and has performed admirably for us over the years), and some various other accounts that are connected with various services, including banks, etc. I’ve never been a Gmail guy, so I don’t have much experience with the intracacies of setting up Gmail to work with Windows 8 and Windows Phone, so let us know how you’re dealing with Gmail if you use it.
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How do you manage your mail? | LiveSide.net
 
I have my old MSN Messenger e-mail for setting up Twitter, this stops my personal e-mail inbox becoming drowned in spam messages from Twitter.
 
An update to linked accounts


There are a number of people who have more than one email address and want to manage these multiple email addresses from Outlook.com. Linked accounts were introduced in 2006 as a way to quickly switch between different accounts each with their own email address. Over the next couple months, we will stop supporting linked accounts and instead help people move to a more robust and secure way of managing multiple email addresses: aliases.

Why have multiple email addresses?

There are many reasons people have multiple email addresses, some of the most common include:

  • They don't want to give out their primary email address to companies and some individuals, to avoid junk email.
  • They want to organize their email into different separate groups in their inbox.
  • They're in the midst of transitioning from one primary email address to another.
We know there are lots of good reasons to have multiple email addresses. We also believe it's important to provide a more robust, secure and durable solution to meet your needs.
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Outlook Blog - An update to linked accounts
 

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