Time for a bit of retraining
I have a lot of email accounts. Part of it is due to this “seminonymous” persona thing, some of it is because I’ve set up Gmail as my “I don’t know who you are so you get this address,” much of it is I’ve-got-this-domain-so-let’s-have-some-email-addresses.
Up ’til now, I’ve read some accounts using Apple Mail, and some I get web-based. However, as I’ve become more impatient with trying to remember which account had what in it, I’ve been trying to figure out how to rearrange things so they make more sense (I guess).
Given the Gmail now has IMAP, I thought I’d try using IMAP to load everything locally. I used IMAP looong ago, and didn’t really like it. I don’t remember why exactly, but I think it was because I kept getting confused with what message was where. I just don’t seem to *get* IMAP. But I’m going to try it for a while and see.
There are other options, of course. I could set up POP for the Gmail accounts, but I get way more spam there than anywhere else, and I didn’t really want to be downloading so much junk. I suppose I could forward all of my regular mail to Gmail so it would all be in one place online, but I’ve read more than one account of peoples Gmail archives going off into the ether, never to be seen again. So I’ll just try this for a while and see if I ever get comfortable with it.
Then maybe I can find that beer bread recipe my friend sent me.
