[LUGSB] Re: Email management

[Jonathan Brandvein]

Sorry, can I get a confirmation from someone on that last email I sent
(quoted below)? I composed it in thunderbird and it did something strange
with my imap tags, autosaving two draft copies that appear with the regular
message in my web interface thread.

This is precisely the reason why I really loathe email in its specific
incarnation.

On 11/30/08, Jon Brandvein <workaphobia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the replies. I should note that I'm not new to the list, I'm
> simply subscribed using my other email since I was using my sparky
> account for this.
>
> Out of curiosity I may examine the commercial service Ben suggested, but
> I don't think I want to move everything over to another third party,
> especially a pay service (and free services that append text to outgoing
> messages are in my opinion unacceptable).
>
> When I last used imap in kmail, it was a bit klungy and slow. I
> reenabled it again and found that that's still the case (I'm on kmail
> 1.9.9, KDE 3.5.9). I tried out thunderbird and found it to be noticeably
> faster, if lacking the KDE charm. I think I'll try to stick to using
> this for a little while and see how bearable it is.
>
> That doesn't address the problem of sparky, however. I haven't been able
> to connect to it through imap yet - it's rejecting some combination of
> my username, password, and authentication method. If anyone happens to
> know those parameters please let me know. Even after that's set up, I
> still have to worry about archiving my old messages and deleting them
> from the server. The vast bulk of the space (75%) is taken up by student
> homework submissions that I could manually save and delete, but I don't
> want to go down that route.
>
> I assume that I should be able to locally save my messages from
> thunderbird to a format that will remain relatively stable in the
> future, should I need to browse through them again. I can accept not
> having access to this archive while away from my machine, but would it
> be safe to sync this archive between the two machines using something
> like rsync? Basically what I'm getting at is: is the on-disk format of a
> saved set of emails relatively simple (specifically, in the case of
> Thunderbird), or will there be complexities that basically lock me into
> dealing with one client on one computer? (Currently I don't have any
> automated synchronization going on between my laptop and desktop, and I
> should probably rectify that over the break to avoid cliche datalosses
> immediately before deadlines.)
>
> Anyway, that last set of rambling aside, my next task will be to get
> imap on sparky working, then save and delete the contents of that
> account. Thanks again for the advice.
>
> Jon
>
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