you may have done this already, but I thought I'd mention it just incase..
I changed gmail accounts a couple months ago and set the old one to forward all mail coming to the old address to the new one and to mark it with a star so that I would know what was still coming in thru the old account without actually having to log into it all the time.

eep. now I just hope that made sense :( sorry!

Nah, I didn't do that, because I don't know which box I want which emails to forward to. Since I want to separate personal and work, I don't want to forward them all to one instead of the other. So, I'll just stick with being silly about it.

But thank you for the suggestion. :^)

Or you could set up a permanent "virtual" (domain name based e.g. me@jensblogrules.com) e-mail address that forwards to your "physical" (mailbox e.g. jensblogrules@gmail.com) e-mail address. That way, if your mailbox changes (e.g. jensblogrules@new-isp.com) you can swap and keep your existing "virtual" address.

Always Think Geek.

I thought of that, too... but then I'd have to check it with Entourage instead of online, and if I checked it online, it'd be all messy.

Okay, so yeah, I'm very strange.

I might do that in the future. I have free email forwarding with my domain account, so it might be worth my while to set it up.

Jennifer,

I understand the email compulsion. It's kind of the same bug that makes people whip out their cell phone every six minutes "just in case" somebody tried to call them.

Have you ever read Steve Pavlina's blog? Honestly, he's kind of a geeky sounding guy, but what he writes really makes a lot of sense to me. It's motivational and common-sensical.

Check out this entry about email management:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/efficient-email/