I never use Mail.
On occasion, I use Thunderbird (especially when I need to do a mail merge).
I use mail in Google Chrome (gmail). I backup via Cloudpull.
Never send a minion to do a god's work.
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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le nubian - Jul 18, 2012 2:00:40 pm PDT #20538 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
meara - Jul 18, 2012 2:13:11 pm PDT #20539 of 25501
I never download my email. I probably should.
Tom Scola - Jul 18, 2012 2:17:59 pm PDT #20540 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Apple Mail is good enough for me.
§ ita § - Jul 18, 2012 2:23:29 pm PDT #20541 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Huh. I'm totally conditioned to use email clients. Like, during the day at work, I use a webmail client for my primary email, which is my own domain address, and my Android devices use IMAP because of limitations of the clients on that platform, but both options frustrate me. But I'm not going to download personal email onto my work computer, and maybe it's been long enough I can look at Android email clients again.
However, I run Mail on my Mac which contains some emails going back as far as...2004 on...11 email accounts , including some on gmail. And you can bet I want to work out how to get those onto this one. I also have Thunderbird running full time on the PC downloading mail for about 7 or 8 email addresses, only one of which isn't also covered by the Mac, and which I will get around to setting up on the new one.
NoiseDesign - Jul 18, 2012 2:54:25 pm PDT #20542 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
There is a function inside Mail for exporting mailboxes. So you can export them on your old machine and then import them into the new one. I've got mail archived on this machine going back to the middle 90's when I was using Claris em@iler. I've been able to export mailboxes and keep them moving between machines.
§ ita § - Jul 18, 2012 2:58:46 pm PDT #20543 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A while back (June 16th, to be precise), I complained here that Opera 12 was swapping my shit around: ita ! "Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."" Jun 16, 2012 3:54:19 pm PDT . As a result, at some unpredictable time in a session, my shortcut keys and my menus would stop working as advertised and work in another completely consistent but undocumented way.
I can't lie, I was a bit excited for the new computer with the new OS, because it's a new environment, and I hadn't seen anyone else complain about this issues, so something special to my old box must be cocked up. It's not like anyone replied to my post on the Opera forum or people reply to bug submissions. That's not how it works.
MotherFUCKER. Shit just happened to my Opera 12 on the new box with OS X Lion. Command T doesn't open a new tab anymore, it does what Command O used to do. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Why motherfucking me, bitches? What did I do?
§ ita § - Jul 18, 2012 2:59:44 pm PDT #20544 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
serial: Thanks for that heads up, ND. I'll be sure to do that. All my mid-90s mail was Eudora. I have it burnt to CD--it's reasonably easy to read with a text editor.
Ginger - Jul 19, 2012 7:58:56 am PDT #20545 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
If power blips are causing my computer to turn off, my UPS probably needs a new battery, right? The battery is pretty old.
DCJensen - Jul 19, 2012 8:02:17 am PDT #20546 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I do backup Gmail.
I'm trying to back up all of my Gmail onto Thunderbird, and it's taking forever. I have to go click "download now" because even if I have the check box checked, it doesn't auto download Gmail.
It does fine on all other accounts. The other thing I run into is that it downloads 48 at a time form Gmail.
omnis_audis - Jul 19, 2012 9:05:29 am PDT #20547 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
If power blips are causing my computer to turn off, my UPS probably needs a new battery, right? The battery is pretty old.Yes, that would be a strong possibility. Also, there are different grades of UPS's. If purchasing a new one, check one that has "brown out" protection (is usually how they label it on the boxes). The better ones tend to run off the battery with the power constantly charging it. That way, there is no switch over gap in time. Some will have a fraction of a second reaction to the loss of power, which is enough to power off your devices. The brown out protection, I believe, sense dips in power, and switches it sooner. The high end ones, just run off battery, like I mentioned above.