Strategies for handling multiple e-mail systems and accounts?

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

All,

I've always had a main e-mail account or two via ISP,
that I downloaded (POP rather than IMAP), and perhaps the 
odd Gmail account that I never downloaded. 

I understand that some of you manage vast empires of 
e-mail, with multiple accounts at various providers, 
for various purposes, and a new gmail account every 
time you visit a new website that wants a login. 

Since both the wife and I are looking at biz ventures, 
we expect we'll soon be dealing with all sorts of mail, 
and want all sorts of accounts in order to handle the influx. 

How do y'all deal with the demands of managing a plethora 
of accounts and sources of mail, some personal, some 
related to this biz, others related to that biz, etc.? 

Do you keep your entire e-mail life online (in the clutches 
of Google for example)?  Do you use local reader software 
like Thunderbird, Evolution, etc., to bring it home and 
keep your own backups? 

What is your strategy for quickly jumping from one account 
or provider to another, from your desktop, and not have 
it all blur? 

Can most mail readers be configured to poll multiple providers 
from multiple profiles/identities and download the incoming 
to separate inboxes that are also seprate file/directory 
structures? 

Or does one open a new instance of a program for each identity 
that one wants to manage? (I'll launch T-bird to be private-me 
and handle my private-from-my-ISP account; I'll launch 
Evolution to be me-as-owner-of-TechWrite Services; I'll launch 
XYZ program to be me-as-volunteer-web-contact-for-charity-W...)

I really hate just doing what seems obvious or seems to work, 
and then discovering that I must undo/untangle a big mess 
before I can re-do it properly.   If I advise the wife wrongly 
as well... the consequences could be grisly. 

If this seems too OT, please contact me directly.

Thanks,

 - Kevin


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