OT: RE: My correct email address...

[John Esak]

Hi Richard, 

I might as well use your email to clear up for the list benefit as well.

I have a kind of double access to the list as john at valar.com and also
john.esak at 21appr.com.  If you are writing to me, please use the
john at valar.com.  The 21appr.com will still work, but I ought to straighten
it out with Bill or Mark to use one or the other. It should be the
john at valar.com.  I'll write to the list runners and get that fixed.  It has
just been impossible to keep straight whether I'm replying or writing from
my office machine or my home machine.  How does everyone else keep it
straight?  One machine defaults to the work email as the sending email and
one to the home email.  It's kind of hard to do it any other way. Does
anyone else have two membership addresses?  I'll limit mine to
john at valarc.com, but what was happening is I would reply as the other
address and since it wasn't a legit membership here, Mark or Bill would have
to catch it and deal with it manually.  Finally, Mark just aliased the two
so I can work as either one. But, it is obviously complicating things and no
one knows where to really respond.

I have the mail from lists at celestial going into an fplist mailbox folder on
each machine. It's just that Outlook is not capable of using separate
default return (or originating) addresses for different folders.  At least,
I've looked and don't see any way to do that.  Oh well, I'll just be more
careful to manually always switch to the john at valar.com from now on, and
I'll send a note to the list runners to remove the john.esak at 21appr.com,
which I think is the current main membership... Aliased to john at valar.com.

I'll get it sorted out and become just myself again as  a list member.  But,
for those who use Outlook (sorry) I am curious as to how you get your
personal/business email addresses going in and out properly. Since you only
have one "default" address for sending or responding (each mail account), do
you each have to remember to change the "account" with Alt-N on every
message wo which you respond?  Sort of a hassle.

For those who care about the gory details. On Outlook... You must choose a
default email account... So here is a simpler lay out of my question. It's
really no big deal, but I don't remember Mark or Bill telling me it has been
a problem with anyone else.  Does everyone just subscribe as a home and work
email account, and *remember* to reply with the correct account?

In other words, the list sends you an email to fred at buck.com, but you also
work for united_figs, which has an address of fred at united_figs.com.  Outlook
has two separate accounts, "buck" and "figs".  If you're like me, you have
Outlook retreive the mail from each account one after the other.  You dump
all incoming mail to your business address into a folder called WORK, so
that's simple. But, email retrieved for the personal account say like mail
from the fplist goes into a FILEPRO folder. Whether you are reading and
replying in the WORK folder or the FILEPRO folder, you must do it as one or
the other main accounts, and if you want to reply as the "other" account,
you have to remember to manually do it.  Is this the pain everyone goes
through?

Remember, this is just a question for those *forced* to use MS Outlook.  I'm
just assuming MUTT and virtually any Linux mail client can do it in a more
sophisticated or controled way.
For now, still locked to the Outlook.
 


There is only one INBOX, one folder for FPMIAL, etc.  So, the business mail
and the personal mail get mixed together.  Please don't tell me you make an
INPUT_bus and an INPUT_per.

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Kreiss [mailto:rkreiss at verizon.net] 
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 9:50 AM
> To: john at valar.com; john.esak at 21appr.com
> Subject: Retirement
> 
> John,
> 
> Which email should we be using?  I assume it would be john at valar.com.
> 
> Am I correct?
> 
> Richard
> 
> PS: in the chatroom now 9:50AM
> 
> 
>