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-------------We get more than a few complaints about Outlook only having 3 email address fields. How many should Outlook have before it gets to be too many or too confusing?
I think 3 is about right. My reasoning, based on how many addresses friends and others should have on file for me:
I have 4 addresses I use for business and personal. One address is delivered to the same mailbox as one of the others (which is then used for replies), so it's just 3 mailboxes. I check these mailboxes multiple times a day and friends or business partners should be using these addresses. I'm not going to send them a vcard containing more than 3 addresses. They should not have a contact for me containing more than these 3 addresses. I prefer they use just one address - a few people that have all 3 will send email to all 3 addresses and it just creates "clutter".
I have something like 15 other addresses - some I use for testing, others for specific purposes. Anyone who uses these addresses is looking for help with a problem - they are not friends or business partners. If a potential business partner uses one of these addresses, i reply from my "real" business address and tell them to use it in the future. I might check these mailboxes daily, if i remember, and rarely check them on weekends or holidays (unless I'm really bored). No one should have more than one of these addresses in a contact.
My friends, family, and business associates should never email me using any of those 15 addresses. I don't want them in a vcard i might send to people or synced to my smart phone. (I use Outlook Notes to keep track of the addresses, passwords, and server configs for each domain, not my Outlook contact.)
What about devices that use addresses - like evernote, kindle and smart phones? I have a contact for my kindle, called Diane's Kindle. Only i should be using it and i want it easy to find and identify. My blackberry has 3 email addresses and 2 SMS - a blackberry address, 2 verizon email, the phone# or the BB pin for SMS/MMS. No one needs the BB and VZW addresses as my personal and business mail is delivered to the BB. It's contact is called Diane's BB.
How many different addresses should be synced to a phone? I only want the ones I might send mail to, so its limited to a contacts personal address and/or business.
What about friends who have more than 3 email addresses? I enter the extras in the notes field for reference. I'm highly unlikely to ever send email to those extra addresses and don't need them in the address book or on my phone. If i have the parents and their kids email addresses, i want a separate contact for the kid (if i need the address in the address book, otherwise, it goes into the notes field. It's way too easy to accidentally send mail to the wrong person and a separate contact in the kid's name can help prevent a problem. Plus, I can use categories to filter and hide the kid's contact. (Same line of thinking applies to cell phone numbers.)
If you previously voted and can vote again, go ahead.
Thanks!
-------------We get more than a few complaints about Outlook only having 3 email address fields. How many should Outlook have before it gets to be too many or too confusing?
I think 3 is about right. My reasoning, based on how many addresses friends and others should have on file for me:
I have 4 addresses I use for business and personal. One address is delivered to the same mailbox as one of the others (which is then used for replies), so it's just 3 mailboxes. I check these mailboxes multiple times a day and friends or business partners should be using these addresses. I'm not going to send them a vcard containing more than 3 addresses. They should not have a contact for me containing more than these 3 addresses. I prefer they use just one address - a few people that have all 3 will send email to all 3 addresses and it just creates "clutter".
I have something like 15 other addresses - some I use for testing, others for specific purposes. Anyone who uses these addresses is looking for help with a problem - they are not friends or business partners. If a potential business partner uses one of these addresses, i reply from my "real" business address and tell them to use it in the future. I might check these mailboxes daily, if i remember, and rarely check them on weekends or holidays (unless I'm really bored). No one should have more than one of these addresses in a contact.
My friends, family, and business associates should never email me using any of those 15 addresses. I don't want them in a vcard i might send to people or synced to my smart phone. (I use Outlook Notes to keep track of the addresses, passwords, and server configs for each domain, not my Outlook contact.)
What about devices that use addresses - like evernote, kindle and smart phones? I have a contact for my kindle, called Diane's Kindle. Only i should be using it and i want it easy to find and identify. My blackberry has 3 email addresses and 2 SMS - a blackberry address, 2 verizon email, the phone# or the BB pin for SMS/MMS. No one needs the BB and VZW addresses as my personal and business mail is delivered to the BB. It's contact is called Diane's BB.
How many different addresses should be synced to a phone? I only want the ones I might send mail to, so its limited to a contacts personal address and/or business.
What about friends who have more than 3 email addresses? I enter the extras in the notes field for reference. I'm highly unlikely to ever send email to those extra addresses and don't need them in the address book or on my phone. If i have the parents and their kids email addresses, i want a separate contact for the kid (if i need the address in the address book, otherwise, it goes into the notes field. It's way too easy to accidentally send mail to the wrong person and a separate contact in the kid's name can help prevent a problem. Plus, I can use categories to filter and hide the kid's contact. (Same line of thinking applies to cell phone numbers.)