Reworking Teh Email

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 02/27/07 at 01:02:51 pm

I’ve been using Google’s Gmail as my primary means of email since early 2005. Overall I’ve been happy with Gmail, I mean, I think the interface could be a bit smoother such as Yahoo’s Beta mail or the AJAX based webmail (mt) mediatemple provides, and I was tempted to switch because of their easy-to-use Outlook-like interfaces. However, I realized that the great organization, search tools, speed, and reliability Google has to offer definitely makes up for it.

Today I decided to take my Gmail usage to the next level and have all of my work related messages forward into it. This project seems simple enough, however the challenge was forwarding the 200MB or so worth of stored work related emails to Gmail for storage. Before today I had used Mozilla Thunderbird for my work email. I’m glad I did use Thunderbird as it was required to utilize the solution I came across for moving all of my messages. By using Mark Lyon’s GML program and This Guide I was able to move all of the messages in just a few minutes and then quickly sort them into the correct Gmail labels.

I wanted to do this project because I’m a freak for synchronization and email should be no exception. I now have all six of my addresses forward to the same account, and by using Gmail’s great filtering and labeling features, all of my emails are automatically sorted into the correct places. The best part is that I’m able to send from multiple addresses within Gmail by using it’s multiple accounts feature.

Mmmmmmm Googley synchronization.

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  1. Googley!
    Word of the last week of febuary.

    Comment by Maxime Rousseau — February 27, 2007 #

  2. Oh yeah? Nice!

    Comment by Mark Langenfeld — February 27, 2007 #

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