If you are like me, you have more than one email account set up. In fact, I recommend that you have at least two email accounts. One primary account for emailing people, and one secondary account for when you need to sign up for something like a newsletter, registration, or when checking out with a purchase. That way companies that sell your email address to marketers are only selling your secondary account and not your main one.
I actually have 6 email accounts that I manage and it really starts to become a pain. One is for friends, one is for junk email, another is for newsletters and another still is for work. The others are legacy that I just haven’t been able to give up on yet.
Anyway, Gmail offers a pretty cool solution that I just came across recently, although I believe its been around for a while now. Its under the “settings” section and its called “accounts.” You can add each email address that you have under a new “account” and after a quick verification, any email that you forward to your Gmail account, from the verified account, will be received. Now here’s the cool part, if you respond to one of those emails in Gmail, your “from” address is the same address as the original account. That means that I can respond to emails sent to my Yahoo account from my Gmail account and it will look like I responded from my Yahoo account without having to actually login. That makes it easy to still maintain and view my multiple email accounts in one inbox.
Plus, with a simple filter set up, I can route all of my other account emails into a separate tag, specifically set up for that account.