<p>I was wondering how most of you work with the email address things. </p>
<p>Do you combine your personal email account with your UVA email address or do you just use your UVA email address for everything, including personal emails to friends, family etc. or do you maintain two separate email addresses - one uva, one personal and check them separately?</p>
<p>Would be really helpful.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>here’s a pseudo relevant past thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-virginia/518154-email-address-do-you-use-when-emailing-faculty.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-virginia/518154-email-address-do-you-use-when-emailing-faculty.html</a></p>
<p>basically you do have those two choices you mentioned, and it’s up to you which one you choose.</p>
<p>i chose to start using my uva email for every and anything, but still check my other (yahoo… sort of… i managed to merge all of my other emails into my yahoo account since i use their toolbar and it tells me when i have mail) account regularly. but i changed the reply-to on that one to send everyone towards my uva.</p>
<p>it gets tricky if you have gmail + uva, since uva now runs on gmail and it sometimes freaks out when you try and access one after another. thus, i know a lot of people who forward their uva email to their gmail account.</p>
<p>but don’t just neglect your uva email - it is the one official, and class list, emails from uva go to.</p>
<p>combining actually works best in my opinion, and gmail makes the process very, very easy. let’s say i have 3 e-mail addresses: <a href="mailto:personal@gmail.com">personal@gmail.com</a>, <a href=“mailto:school@school.edu”>school@school.edu</a>, and <a href="mailto:work@work.com">work@work.com</a>.</p>
<p>first, set-up your e-mails accounts so that all of your e-mails are forwarded to one single address, for example, have <a href=“mailto:school@school.edu”>school@school.edu</a> and <a href="mailto:work@work.com">work@work.com</a> forwarded to <a href="mailto:personal@gmail.com">personal@gmail.com</a>.</p>
<p>then, within your <a href="mailto:personal@gmail.com">personal@gmail.com</a> e-mail account, gmail lets you add filters, where you can automatically attach a “School” label to all e-mails originally sent to <a href=“mailto:school@school.edu”>school@school.edu</a> and a “Work” label to all e-mails originally to <a href="mailto:work@work.com">work@work.com</a>. then, you can attach the label “Personal” to all e-mails sent to <a href="mailto:personal@gmail.com">personal@gmail.com</a>. did i mention you can also really easily sort by label, so you can easily access JUST personal e-mails or JUST school e-mails?</p>
<p>gmail also lets you, and this is really cool: once in your <a href="mailto:personal@gmail.com">personal@gmail.com</a> account, when you’re writing an e-mail, you can choose which of your 3 e-mail addresses you want to show up in the “from” line of the e-mail. you can receive e-mails for AND SEND E-MAILS FROM all 3 accounts in one e-mail (gmail) account.</p>
<p>it’s easy to set-up, super efficient, and makes my life a heck of a lot easier. i swear, google is the coolest thing ever.</p>
<p>basically just forward all e-mails to your one e-mails address. then, in gmail, go to:</p>
<p>settings >> accounts >> <em>under “send mail as”</em> add any e-mail address for any e-mail you own.</p>
<p>sorry for blabbing on if you’re not interested – i just found this really useful and thought it might help. :)</p>
<p>No, seriously, jaybird, that’s seriously helpful. I think I might do that since my personal email account is a gmail account and it’ll make life, seemingly, a whole lot easier.</p>
<p>Thanks both of you!</p>