Luckymonkey

Or, how to use Fetchmail to reliably move large quantities of email from one place to another

If, like me, your normal email machine has vanished into a black hole at some service department somewhere *cough*apple*cough*, then you’ll quite quickly find out that :

• Being un-connected is a strange, but not wholly unpleasant experience..
• .. but you still need to get at your email, but you don’t want to be setting it up on another machine because then you’ll just have email spread in a whole bunch of different directions

Fear not - the solution to the problem is just to create a webmail account with GMail* and use Fetchmail to push all of your email in there. All you need is a little terminal magic, and a program which is installed by default in OS X.

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I was down in Southampton today, so I thought I’d go along to the new Apple store (in West Quay), to see if I could pick up one of the new keyboards, as released last Tuesday (along with the new iMac, MiniMac speed bump and a bunch of other stuff). Reason being that I used to really like my MB keyboard, and I don’t like the MBP keyboard quite as much.

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Kill the Dashboard - you haven’t got any widgets which are actually useful, and it’s using RAM which could be used for something else which is actually useful.

Free Wallpapers - including sources which span across multiple monitors..

How Digg Scales - Interesting one this, since 99% of their page views are reads, perhaps they should be generating static content, rather than trying to read everything out of the database..

99 Developer Links - great stuff in here

Sometimes, one of IMOCs more prolific and outspoken members uses a semi-cryptic language for getting her point across. After several months studying this proto-language, I’ve developed the following list :

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Hi all,

Sorry about this. It looks like all of the post data is still in the database, so nothing has been lost - but - the site seems to have lost it’s marbles about how they are all connected together. I’ll be replacing the forum software with something else which should be more reliable.
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