Hi Kim, which email provider do you use? If you have your mail forwarded to a Gmail account, above each email you’ll have the opportunity to put a ‘reply’ with your personal address. (It’s a drop down in the ‘From’ field.)

There is also a neat way to use the program Thunderbird to do this as well. You can set up a portable version of the email client (which is like a free version of Outlook) on a USB drive and use this plug in below to make the “From” address from which ever account you like.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/594

Let me know if you need help or any step-by-steps for either of these options, I’d be happy to help.

Can you explain a bit more about forwarding your email. This concept is great for reading the email. If you want to reply however, you will need to log-into your original account, else the reply address will be the forwarded account. This will confuse the receiver no end and I have people who cannot keep my personal and my work account addresses separated as people will generally just reply to the latest email you sent.

Many people don’t consider email a ‘sensitive’ account like bank logins for example. An email account is a great way to steal information to a number of other accounts. Also most people use the same passwords for all of their online accounts – chances are if someone gets you email password they’ve got your bank, Twitter, Facebook, etc. as well.

As an afterthought I’d also recommend using the portable versions of Firefox and Thunderbird to run off of a USB stick – but that takes a bit more setting up before you leave for vacation.