Checking the Mailbox
I have quite honestly resisted the idea of the e-mail client for about forever. I blame it on horrible experiences with configuring Outlook for other people. GMail never really helped with the matter, it helped me postpone the inevitable with allowing me to access other e-mails on other online platforms, and I adore the little tags. As I write this I am now wondering what got me started on this project in the first place. Don’t I have it all? The e-mail client I can access everywhere?
But I, like so many other humans on this earth, consistently want to find the better deal, to fill up that gnawing little hole in our souls with consumerism. It’s a life.
So at the moment I’m fiddling around with Thunderbird, because I like cheap, and I can pretend that I’m sticking it to the man with my open source programming. Eat that corporations. It’s actually quite simple, open the program up (bypass the little notice my computer belches out about it being a program from “gasp” the internet), tell them I use GMail, then type the address and password in. Very simple; not so quick. Immediately it starts downloading e-mails from October 2004. This just makes me love GMail even more, all that storage. Then I start pondering how much my life has changed in four years, has it really been four years? Enough with the nostalgia I check my progress, so far only forty e-mails have downloaded.
A few e-mail addresses and a couple thousand e-mails later, I’m just a little tired but the set-up was easy. That said I do keep my self decently tech savvy. The only issue is really how long it takes to organize a large amount of files, a pain for someone like me who keeps nearly everything but if you aren’t prone to be a pack rat it’s very simple.
I’ll be testing it for the next couple weeks, we’ll see if I run back to Google.
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