If you never interact with a gmail account, the spam filtering isn't going to work very well. It can't tell what you've read or skipped, and you never compose anything, so it doesn't know who are your real correspondents. That's why forwarding in this way is a bad idea.
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Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers
#22I use Chrome's incognito feature to manage multiple email accounts.
My work Google account goes in an incognito window, personal Google account goes in the standard window.
I've found this works really well, and the different colors help my mind remember which environment I'm in.
Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers
#23I use Chrome's incognito feature to manage multiple email accounts. My work Google account goes in an incognito window, personal Google account goes in the standard window. I've found this works really well, and the different colors help my mind remember which environment I'm in.
Did you know Chrome has multiple profile support? It's under Settings -> Users. After you've got more than one user, there's a quick-user-switch icon in Chrome's title bar.
Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers
#24I use Chrome's incognito feature to manage multiple email accounts. My work Google account goes in an incognito window, personal Google account goes in the standard window. I've found this works really well, and the different colors help my mind remember which environment I'm in.
You can actually sign in to multiple google accounts and switch between them (at least for email / docs - not analytics / other services). I can't remember exactly how to do it, I think you need to enable multiple sign in on the account first.
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#25"Man Fucks Up Email Configuration, Blames Gmail"
If only HN had mods, who could perhaps edit linkbait titles.
Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers
#26I use Chrome's incognito feature to manage multiple email accounts. My work Google account goes in an incognito window, personal Google account goes in the standard window. I've found this works really well, and the different colors help my mind remember which environment I'm in.
Pretty sure you can use two regular windows to run separate accounts (although the colour coding would be useful). Another option is running multiple user profiles in Chrome.
Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers
#27I use Chrome's incognito feature to manage multiple email accounts. My work Google account goes in an incognito window, personal Google account goes in the standard window. I've found this works really well, and the different colors help my mind remember which environment I'm in.
You can actually sign in to multiple google accounts and switch between them (at least for email / docs - not analytics / other services). I can't remember exactly how to do it, I think you need to enable multiple sign in on the account first.
They certainly do. I've found that feature to be pretty buggy, personally. Command + tilde is faster than clicking a drop down and waiting for the switch.
Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers
#28"Man Fucks Up Email Configuration, Blames Gmail" If only HN had mods, who could perhaps edit linkbait titles.
Did you read the article? He didn't blame Google. He blamed himself [1][2] and alerted others to a mistake he made that they might make too.
[1] "So what I realized is that I had made a fatal mistake by forwarding my email" [2] "But, I’m not trying to blame Google for this"
Edit: Also, the title doesn't blame Gmail either. "How to use Gmail..." implies that it's something you the user can do not something Gmail does.
Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers
#29"Man Fucks Up Email Configuration, Blames Gmail" If only HN had mods, who could perhaps edit linkbait titles.
or more truthfully: Man fucks up mail configuration in a non-obvious way, does not blame Gmail.
Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers
#30I use Chrome's incognito feature to manage multiple email accounts. My work Google account goes in an incognito window, personal Google account goes in the standard window. I've found this works really well, and the different colors help my mind remember which environment I'm in.
Pretty sure you can use two regular windows to run separate accounts (although the colour coding would be useful). Another option is running multiple user profiles in Chrome.
Cookies are shared between standard windows (unless there's a way to disable that).
Haven't looked into the profiles. Speed of switching would be the most important thing for me.