just like yahoo, has annoying interstitials, and just like yahoo, looks you in. so much angst.
Tag: email
Dawn
converts between mab, ldif, vcard etc. useful to get addresses out of the thunderbird ghetto
Blackberry Portrait
the new cultural icon of those wanting to appear busy (and important). look for more uptake in middle management in 2007
Gmail Just Got Perfect
Google quietly added a small feature to Gmail this week called Mail Fetcher. When that feature launched, Gmail became perfect.
it would be more perfect still if it supported IMAP. that would allow me to backup my mail store 🙂
AbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzAbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzAbcdefghijk.com
BlackBerry Orphans
Like a bunch of teenagers, some parents are routinely lying to their kids, sneaking around the house to covertly check their emails and disobeying house rules established to minimize compulsive typing.
consumotronic
an email archiving/tagging bot. You cc or forward it email with one or more tags, or one-word keywords. It reads the email, extracts addresses and URLs from it, and stores the results in an rdfobj model with metadata about the mail’s creators and receiver
Collateral damage
I have started to accept the collateral damage that is false positives and delete all emails on the server that spamassassin classifies as spam. Here is my procmailrc, ready for use with any Maildir based setup. If you use /var/spool/mail, just remove the DEFAULT line. enjoy, but don’t come crying to me if you miss emails.
#LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
#VERBOSE=yes
#LOGABSTRACT=all
DEFAULT=${HOME}/Maildir/
# Send all mail through SpamAssassin
:0fw: spamassassin.lock
* < 256000
| spamassassin
# Mail that is classified as spam will be deleted
:0
* ^X-Spam-Status: YES
/dev/null
Recently, spam has hovered around the 4.5-5.0 mark in spamassassin. Looks like spammers try to send spam just below the default threshold (5), so I made my new threshold 4.5
Emailcrew
my friend doug is easing into his new role at MGM Mirage as technology coordinator for permission-based email campaigns. to this end, he created emailcrew.
EmailCrew.com aspires to be to email marketing professionals what A List Apart (ALA) is to web design professionals; a forward-thinking resource for the responsible yet effective design and distribution of content. Where ALA focuses on the browser, EmailCrew will focus on the email client and the tools and techniques used to deliver opt-in, permission-based, rich-media email campaigns.
it will be interesting to watch this one unfold with pundits declaring the death of email.
thunderbird rocks
IMAP has received a huge performance boost and is several times faster than 0.2
confirmed. this is HUGE news for me. i have 10Ks of emails on my IMAP, and the speedup over flaky wifi will be a very welcome change. i felt the speedup on the landline, even. thunderbird is quickly becoming the best email program.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 