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Many email accounts come from many adventures and learning curves. Days off are needed to consolidate! I do, however, use only one email account solely for all online shopping and SPAM.

I have to return a call this morning to a friend who is also having Outlook issues – sigh. Add Vista on top of that? I feel for you. I’m looking at an Intel Mac as my next purchase. Vista knows of their issues but they will be using the same core through 2012. That would be a long sabbatical!

i can understand the IMAP thing. i’m a little PO’d at Microsoft now too…Outlook has been weird with my conversion to Vista. somehow, i can’t send group emails unless i go in and change every single “display as” name in my contact list. somehow that field got corrupted in the change over from xp to vista. ya. lovely, huh. don’t know how to fix that other than to literally change “display as” field in outlook. and Vista is a POS in my opinion. even microsoft’s own apps don’t work seamlessly with it! Its a complete joke when I get error messages for IE or Word not working/shutting down. anyway…just another story and another reason for my long break. hoping i’m timing my return from long sabbatical when a new system upgrade fixes everything! (hey one can have their dreams!)

I often feel it’s a choice between 2 evils, Google or Microsoft. I have had so many problems with MS Outlook over the years that it now feels like freedom! Now that I’m using IMAP I can’t imagine going back to POP. I check my mail from multiple computers/devices; it’s all synced!! Hey, I’m not defending Google, but Google Apps was the solution I was looking for to rid myself of Outlook. This is the first problem I’ve experienced, but that doesn’t mean it will be the last.

However, a downside is not having a copy of emails and information on the computer. I think it’s worth exploring alternatives and heed your warnings. The alternative I would look into is Zoho, now that they have mail. I’m sure there are others…just don’t know them. Since I have 5-6 email accounts, it’s time to consolidate (that’s separate issue.)

Evil Wears a Purple Collar:

Agreed that Gmail’s features are cool! I use a couple personal Gmail accounts for Google services as well as Google Apps for my email @ Pixel Position dot com. It’s hard to leave and won’t.

But if one wanted to leave Google mail hosting through Google Apps, then you wouldn’t have to change the address. It would always be #### @ montessoriforeveryone dot com. (This can all be setup through your domain registrar. See http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions.html ) You might want to consider this as you grow.

It’s a good practice to have a domain-related email account – also looks better on business cards and branding. Of course, this doesn’t solve issues like today when one’s mail server (for multiple accounts) is through Google.

You’re right. How does that song go… “You never know what you’ve lost until it’s gone.”

What’s amazing, too, is how addicted we can be to email! When I’m focusing on a project, I shut down Twitter and email. Thinking I’m going to do this more often!

I, too, hope this won’t happen too often.Google provides some great services. It is worth looking at ways to not be so “Goopendent.”