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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Tieno on December 15, 2008, 03:27:46 PM

Title: Switching to gmail is so easy!
Post by: Tieno on December 15, 2008, 03:27:46 PM
So I finally switched to gmail, after years of having an email with my ISP. Wanted to change forever to gmail, but didn't want to bother with notifying everyone and/or having a third mail address to check and what with all my emails?
Apparantly it's easy as fuck. I just added my two other mails to my gmail which get automatically checked and loaded into gmail. So don't have to bother anyone or check multiple places. Also found a way to easily import all my e-mails to gmail. You can just set up a GMAIL IMAP account in outlook or thunderbird and then copy the mails to the corresponding folders, which then get uploaded to gmail.
So this is what I did. Collected my still (4) existing mail outlook and outlook express archives from a few backups I made, merged them in thunderbird. Added an extension to search and delete duplicates, uploaded around 4000-5000 mails to gmail. Now I don't have to bother with backing up my outlook folders when I do a format and I always have access to my entire mail archive on any pc. Everything is neatly sorted on date and into conversations.
Added better gmail 2 to firefox too, which makes it better!

 :tophat

Google :bow2
Title: Re: Switching to gmail is so easy!
Post by: Ecrofirt on December 15, 2008, 03:31:55 PM
Better be careful not to have gmail open while you visit other sites! (http://geekcondition.com/2008/11/23/gmail-security-flaw-proof-of-concept/)
Title: Re: Switching to gmail is so easy!
Post by: Reb on December 15, 2008, 03:33:50 PM
Google owns me. I love Gmail, it also loads all my mails, I upload all kinds of documents to Google Docs, share my pictures with Picasa and browse with Chrome... I hope they don't turn out to be evil!
Title: Re: Switching to gmail is so easy!
Post by: Tieno on December 15, 2008, 05:01:11 PM
Quote from: Borys on December 15, 2008, 03:32:58 PM
Welcome to 2004!
I'm retro!
Quote from: Rebiak on December 15, 2008, 03:33:50 PM
Google owns me. I love Gmail, it also loads all my mails, I upload all kinds of documents to Google Docs, share my pictures with Picasa and browse with Chrome... I hope they don't turn out to be evil!
I used google docs a bit for my thesis and do have picasa. Don't have chrome since I'm happy with firefox and its extensions.
Title: Re: Switching to gmail is so easy!
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 15, 2008, 05:25:31 PM
I too am google whipped. Recently switched to Chrome after switching to Firefox 3 (though I do 99% of my browsing on my macbook with safari.)
Title: Re: Switching to gmail is so easy!
Post by: littlemathletics on December 15, 2008, 05:48:54 PM
If you're not using the Terminal theme, you're not a real man.