Jam Report #68: 2/3/08

In which technoshaman does not join us but pocketnaomi does; in which sutures1 returns with her much-welcomed dulcimer; in which further group work is done on Dara's pieces to nifty effect; and in which I have enough of a brain back that I can actually play stuff! Songs: "Goin' Up", "Lukey", "Elf Glade", "Leaffall", "Web of Love".

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The Great Mail Migration of 2008 continues

Throughout pretty much all of January, I have continued to slog through the Great Mail Migration of 2008. This has been incredibly time-consuming, not only because of the need to evaluate each folder of mail to see if I actually wanted to keep it, but also because of the need to get rid of all the duplicates generated by failed export and import attempts.

Things have been further complicated by the fact that if it deals with a mailbox that's got too damn much data in it, Mail.app slows down like a great big slowing down thing. Which in turn means that any operation I want to do with that mailbox takes all that much longer.

This past week I finally had this thought: Mail Moving: You're Doing It Wrong.

Gmail, I thought. Gmail talks IMAP. Why didn't I, I asked myself, just use Gmail as an intermediary between Outlook and Mail, and drop Thunderbird and Eudora out of the loop entirely?

But solarbird did me one better. She has actually now installed IMAP on murkworks.net, so not only can I have all my mail on our own server, I can have it accessible from whatever client I like and at local LAN speeds. This is what is known in these parts as a Win.

I'm still not done reorganizing all my mail. Now at least, though, it'll go a lot faster.