June 26th, 2004
Danyel Fisher pointed out this cool Gmail tip.
Note that you can get around the label issue by forwarding messages to “myname+label”, and then searching for “+label”.
(Gmail allows you unlimited “+” addresses. For example, all my mail that’s forwarded from an external account goes to mygmailname+forward@gmail.com)
Aforementioned “label issue” being the issue with gExodus 0.2’s new label feature which prefixes a user-specified string to the subject of each forwarded email. If I’d known that earlier… Nah it was good practice. It actually forced me to figure out how to modify an existing email’s headers.
June 26th, 2004
When I last gave out a Gmail invite, I had to squeeze out 1 for my dear blog readers (actually, when I got more invites, I gave another one to Joshua too). Now it seems that even 2 invites are so hard to give away.
It seems that the Gmail craze is finally dying down. Well, at least in the blog circles. Gmail’s on almost every blog and almost every blogger has one (either through an account at Blogger or through viral means). Colleagues at work have Gmail. Friends don’t see the need for Gmail. I’m actually having a hard time thinking of people who could use an invite. So from now on I’m giving away invites on my blog to readers. I’m not giving them to just anyone who searched for “Gmail invite” on Google and popped over. I happen to be listed on the first page of search results on Google for “Gmail invite” at this moment, and that has surpassed my usual high-ranking search terms of “bittornado“, “uxtheme.dll“, and “hotmail thunderbird” within 3 days - 1466 visitors via that search phrase.
I was looking down the list of people who posted in response to my entry asking my readers to show themselves, looking for people to give away the invites to, but I wasn’t sure who wanted them. If you posted before and want an invite, let me know.
June 25th, 2004
Ben Goodger has announced that Firefox 0.9.1 will be out soon. This will be a bugfix point release, mostly fixing Extension Manager bugs. Winstripe (the default theme) will also be updated.
June 23rd, 2004
I’ve updated gExodus (previous version 0.1) with 2 new features (straight from the changelog):
- Added ability to set a label to prefix to the Subject of forwarded emails.
- Added “Pause/Continue” feature.
The “label” idea was suggested by Rory Parle (great thinking!), and it should be particularly useful for identifying which imported email messages came from which mbox. For example, if you set a label of “[yahoo-personal]” when importing your Yahoo personal email account into Gmail with gExodus, each of the emails will have “[yahoo-personal]” prefixed to their subject field. This means that an email that had the subject of “Hey dude, I heard Futurama’s coming back!” becomes “[yahoo-personal] Hey dude, I heard Futurama’s coming back!”. It annoyed me that the imported mails cluttered up my Gmail inbox and I don’t know which ones are imported, and which are “live” emails that I’ve just received. This also now allows me to setup a filter to filter all imported mail to be tagged with a particular label.
The “Pause/continue” feature allows you to pause the importing of messages midway through an import. Useful in situations where you have a large mailbox with lots of messages. It should rightly work even after you’ve disconnected (and reconnected) your Internet connection.
Still having several issues with multithreading, so you’ll notice 1 last email being imported after you pause or abort gExodus. This is because if the email forwarding thread is paused (or killed) while it is sending out an email, it will follow through with it before actually pausing (or dying). It’s not a particularly catastrophic issue, though far from acceptable.
Download gExodus 0.2
Feedback and suggestions welcome as always. This is what’s on my TODO list:
- Pre-select where the mbox file is most likely to reside on a harddisk
- Delay field (for specifying the delay between sending one message and the next)
- Interactive importing (”Yes/No/Yes to all”)
- Importing of maildir format
- Recurse subdirectories and import all the mailboxes in each directory
June 22nd, 2004
Lisa Williams of Learning The Lessons of Nixon has her weblog entries categorized using the Dewey Decimal System! Nice!
I’d do the same too, only I think most of my categories would belong under the big umbrellas of Technology and Computers.
Sending to yourname+label@gmail.com labels your email
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