Gary: I note you have your own domain ([email protected]). How did you do that with gmail?
-- Owen On Jun 9, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Gary Schiltz wrote: > I've been using gmail via IMAP for at least five years, and haven't found it > to be bad at all, though I'm not that fond of its web interface either. I > started using gmail with Thunderbird under Windows XP, and switched to using > it with Mail.app on OS X about three years ago. I haven't had any serious > problems. I started with a whole bunch of nested folders in Thunderbird from > 20+ years of POP3 accounts when I switched to gmail IMAP. > > First, set up a gmail account and enable IMAP via the web interface. Then add > the IMAP gmail account to Thunderbird or Mail.app. I generally didn't > explicitly create folders in this account, but instead dragged individual > folders from the POP3 accounts onto the gmail account. I was able to drag > folders (even heirarchies of folders) from the POP3 accounts to the gmail > account. In cases where I had folders with many subfolders (e.g. a "Friends" > folder with subfolders for each friend), I did explicitly create the parent > folder, and then dragged one or a few subfolders onto it. If the parent > folder has messages in it (e.g. in my Friends folder, I also keep messages > from misc. friends that I have had very few messages from, and so > particularly want to have their own folders), then select all the messages in > the folder and explicitly drag the messages into the newly created folder. > Since IMAP keeps the client and server in sync, this process also creates the > folders on the gmail server. > > The process is slow and manual, but worked well for me. In the end, you have > nicely backed up email that you can access either from your laptop/desktop > mail app, or from any computer via the web interface. Also, when I switched > to Mac, all I had to do was create the account in Mail.app, and all the > folders and messages magically appeared (while burning up a lot of bandwidth > - thanks, NCGR for the T3 connection :-), since they already existed on the > server. > > I suspect the idea of lots of nested folders is pretty old fashioned (like me > :-) Gmail talks about "labels" instead of folders, which are basically tags. > If the labels have embedded slashes, its IMAP treats these as nested folders, > so you can have it both ways, although it is a bit ugly to have labels like > Friends/Santa Fe/FRIAM/Owen. > > ;; Gary > > On Jun 9, 2011, at 9:30 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > >> Like many a damn fool, I'm seriously trying to use Gmail, via the web >> interface. >> >> Now, I (possibly mistakenly) presume you, fellow gmail users, are not >> going through the tortue I am. In plain words, it Sucks. Really! >> >> So I must ask you to answer one of two questions: >> 1 - How do you bear it? .. Do you have a stunt to make the web UI more >> usable? >> 2 - If not, do you access gmail in some other way? An email client? >> Or some other way to avoid the Horror Of It All? >> >> I will go through a couple of weeks and hope for the best. But >> clearly if you can handle this, you have Given Up. >> >> -- Owen >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Santa Fe Complex >> "discuss" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/a/sfcomplex.org/group/discuss > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Santa Fe Complex > "discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/a/sfcomplex.org/group/discuss ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
