I have a few different email accounts and collect them from several machines. I get a bit confused setting up outlook, live mail, outlook express, …

One thing I used to do was collect the mail for all names at my freeserve address -

dave@myaccount.fsnetco.uk, davef@myaccount.fsnetco.uk, tat@myaccount.fsnet.co.uk .

That way the kids could give out their own names and all the mail turned up in the one account, I could fill in web forms with an address and then see if I got spam from it and easily set up rules to bin it and any typos from friends did reach me -
dave.f@myaccount.fsnetco.uk / save@myaccount.fsnetco.uk / d*ckhead@myaccount.fsnetco.uk (I think the last one was a typo, don’t see quite how they did that though…)

However, at one stage I must have re-set up machines and forgotten to do that - in fact I remember being aware I was missing some mail and not being able to figure out how to get it. Yesterday I did figured it out, set up the server account name as myaccount.fsnetco.uk not dave@myaccount.fsnetco.uk - I just picked up 3000 mails to various typos, dummy names, spammers random addresses…. Which included the comment notifications to this blog - I did wonder where they had gone (sorry about my slow response to comments but you can see why now!)

If you do do this you should be warned that your spam volume will increase!

In any case it doesn’t seem to work with all servers, my other mail server doesn’t let me log in without specifying a full email address. As ever, advice is always appreciated