Apologies for the lack of updates lately– I have some work commitments that tend to eat up my spare screen time. It’s a project I’m working on with a friend which will hopefully end up being a big deal and making us lots of money, but for now it’s a race to get an alpha ready for limited testing and raise some early funding. I’ll probably write some more about it here sometime soon but for now let me say it has nothing to do with any of my pet projects and is in fact a webby-cloudy-appy thing written in Ruby on Rails (which I’m still not a huge fan of, but at least I’m kind of used to it now).
As the weekend approaches I am already dreading what my bathroom scale is going to tell me next week, since I’ve already managed to creep back up to 100kg again (220lb). I’m sure I’m not the only person in the world whose morning ritual includes flipping the bird and telling the scale to fuck off just for being honest.
Time time time keeps going by way too fast. Yesterday I found an old system backup and set up a very slow import into gmail from my old Outlook Express mailbox folders, adding messages from 1998-2004 to my viewable mail archive. Somehow I have utterly misplaced 2005 though, which is kind of annoying… but then maybe it would be better if it had all been lost, because a history of messages can be a great reminder of how little has changed in a decade or more– just like a blog can be.
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Importing Outlook Express messages into gmail
Don’t google for the best method, you will get some really bad info about using 3rd party garbage. This method worked as well as I could possibly expect, preserving dates and adding threading seamlessly.
- Enable imap in gmail
- Add your gmail account to OE (temporary, just for this process)
- Create a new target folder (tag) in gmail to easier see your imported messages.
- In OE, drag your old messages into the new imap folder (or into ‘all mail’ if you skipped step 3)
- Go to bed. It took my setup about a second per message, so this is something best left as an overnight thing.