Emails and IM

I am really frustrated with my email/IM situation right now. I am attempting to move all of my emails to 1 main email account and completely ditch my old email address that I've had since 1999. I wanted to switch to something easier to tell people, that does not require a long explanation each time I give out my email, and perhaps looks a little more professional.

Well, this has seemed to cause me more stress than I think it was really worth. The new email does not work the same way with my IM client of choice. Before, my email and chat were all connected. If I signed into IM, I was also signed into my email and could have notifications of new emails pop up if I chose. I could click an icon and immediately get to my inbox. It was all so easy and all in one place.

After switching over, I now have to have two different IM clients open in order to have all of this available to me at the same time. On top of that, when I first signed up with the new email on my old IM, I left out the . in the middle of the email address, thinking it was not that big of a deal. Well, for some reason, even though I received the verification email and verified it, it still kept saying that my email was not verified. Very annoying.

So, I signed up, once again. This time using the dot. I only sent out requests to a couple of my contacts, because I am still trying to decide if I'm going to stick with this, or just go back and use the old email, at least for IM purposes.