If you own a business, have a personal and have your hands in a few other ventures you may accumulate a lot of email addresses. While I could use one for everything, I prefer not to mix stuff, so I have about 10 separate emails and I manage them really simply and effectively, here's how.
I simply set up each account and then forward them to a central email address, which is a completely different one. I have emails set up for different functions, like filling out registration forms, communicating with my website visitors and so on. These are all forwarded to a Gmail
address. I set up the Gmail to be able to send and receive email from that address and off I am.
The second step for me is creating filters. I usually create labels for each email address, so they automatically get sorted out for me! This way I gain a lot, since my mail is nicely organized and I can go back and find anything easily.
The only thing you need to remember is to change email addresses when sending. In Gmail you can choose the address you want to send from at the top, I do forget this sometimes, make sure you remember though!
