{"id":686,"date":"2008-08-05T22:27:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T03:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2008-08-05T22:36:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T03:36:23","slug":"goodbye-eudora-hello-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/08\/05\/goodbye-eudora-hello-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Eudora, Hello Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1995 I started using Eudora<\/a> as my main email program. Before that I used PINE on a terminal client. All of my email from 1989 to 1995 fit on one floppy, so a text based terminal program was fine.<\/p>\n

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Today I get more than a “floppy full” of email every day and Eudora has served me well until last Thursday.\u00a0 That morning I tweaked one of my filters and Eudora didn’t like it.\u00a0 While I was away from the computer, Eudora collected one message 528,000 times.\u00a0 It corrupted my IN.MBX file in Eudora.<\/p>\n

I have a backup.\u00a0 I didn’t really lose anything, but the hassle was the last straw.\u00a0 The real problem is the program.\u00a0 Qualcomm stopped updating Eudora in 2006.\u00a0 That same year, the base code was turned over to the Mozilla foundation.\u00a0 The program was “Thunderbird-ized” and renamed Penelope<\/a>.\u00a0 I switched to Penelope on my laptop.\u00a0 The basic operation of Penelope was drastically different than Eudora.\u00a0 If I was going to do something different, it had to be worth the pain of switching.\u00a0 Penelope wasn’t.<\/p>\n

I have six email accounts that I have to check regularly.\u00a0 Eudora did all of them.\u00a0 Every night I backed up my EMAIL folder and that was all there was to it.\u00a0 I can switch to a new computer and take 13 years of email with me just by copying that folder.\u00a0 That’s right… I have 13 years of email.\u00a0 Many times that has been handy.<\/p>\n

After looking at several options I decided to give Gmail a try.\u00a0 I have had an account for years, but only use it for my calendar.\u00a0 Now it POPs all my mail from those other accounts and gives me one web-based interface from any computer with a browser.\u00a0 The learning curve was about one day.\u00a0 On Monday I sifted through about 2000 messages.\u00a0 I learned the short-cut keys and added Greasemonkey’s Gmail Macros<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So far, so good.\u00a0 I have about three months of email that made it to Gmail.\u00a0 Those messages consumed just two percent of the space Gmail allotted me.\u00a0 I should be good for eight to ten years given the 6GB limit.\u00a0 I’ll keep you posted on how it works out.\u00a0 Just in case, I have one machine still running Eudora as a backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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