Obviously, if I had used IMAP instead of POP over Of course, I could just read the mailboxes as text files in BBEdit, but that’s silly. I’ve eliminated the need to use Eudora for bulk mailing with added functionality in the TidBITS Publishing System and I can live without the alternative spelling check (or maybe I’ll try Spell Catcher), but I really need to move my email out of Eudora and into some other program. So I continued to use Eudora in small ways - sending bulk messages such as notifications of DealBITS drawing winners (I can’t imagine Gmail allowing a message with 900 recipients), spell-checking the weekly TidBITS issue in a Eudora window (since it sometimes catches mistakes that the Mac OS X spell checker misses), and retrieving the occasional old message from years in the past.Įnter Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, and exit Eudora, thanks to the loss of Rosetta, Apple’s clever software for enabling PowerPC software to run on Intel-based Macs (see “ Preparing for Lion: Find Your PowerPC Applications,” ). Much as I like Gmail, there are certain things it can’t do that Eudora could, and there are the hundreds of thousands of messages I had stored in my local Eudora Folder. But after 18 years of using Eudora, I couldn’t just quit cold turkey. Throughout that time, I’ve been using Gmail - through the excellent Mailplane - for my everyday email (see “ Zen and the Art of Gmail, Part 1: Why I Switched,” 16 March 2011). I’ve been avoiding writing about how to convert email out of Eudora for several years now. #1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.#1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.#1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.#1662: New Macs, 12 top OS features for 2023, vertical tabs in Web browsers, watchOS 9.5.1.#1663: Exploring the Apple Vision Pro, 12 more OS features coming in 2023, new Apple service features, Apollo shuts down.I haven’t completely described my problem here – just a glimmer of what I’m thinking the issues are. I can’t get a incremental update feed for sucking into EagleFiler as I’m sending outgoing mail. I either get a copy of ALL my sent mail – or nothing. With Gmail, it’s an all or nothing proposition. The problem is that there’s no way I’ve discovered to be able to do that. What I’d love to do is to have my sent email, for example, added incrementally into my EagleFiler archive – so that I’ve got a local copy, easily searchable, right at hand. EagleFiler makes searching my archive of saved “stuff” quick and easy. On my desktop (Mac), I use a program called EagleFiler to manage huge archives of files that I think at some point I’ll want to go back and refer to again. A major step forward! But, alas, not a complete solution to my needs. If you enable that feature, you can – for example – make Gmail’s All Mail or Sent Mail invisible to IMAP clients so that they won’t spin forever trying to keep a desktop version of those multi-gigabyte (!) mailboxes in sync with the Gmail server version. One of the features they added a few months back allows you to enable/disable various “folders” (or Labels in Gmail parlance) so that they’re not made available to IMAP clients. I’m a big fan of what the Google folks are doing with the Labs feature in Gmail.
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