I confused myself

I believe I have confused myself already … I current own almost all xiehang@somedomain email address, and I also have 7 or 8 domains to maintain, I did some mail forwarding plus some pop3 access so to make my life easier (means I don’t have to check all mail accounts), but it seems I’ve already confused myself.

I will check all my settings again, there should be 20 or so accounts to be checked. I wish after that I can have a tidy mail setup.

By the way, I’m posting this with my iPad in a starbucks.

How many mails I received everyday?

I started collecting this information since Nov 2004, and here is the graph:I got ridiculous number of mails everyday while I was working for mail (which makes sense since it’s mail team, everything is a mail), which is around 10K daily, and after I move to current team it dropped to (sort of) reasonable number which is couple of hundreds per day.

Finally Thunderbird fixed its problem

It seems 3.0.3 is a good version, at least to me.

I think I was one of the first batch that tried out TB3, however, it seems my mailbox does not fit into TB3 – I have ~600 mail folders, with ~110K mails and the biggest folder has about 8000 mails. Obvious old version of TB3 cannot handle this – it popped up error message window from time to time and every time I started TB3 I have to wait for pretty long time to get everything sync’ed.

Thanks 3.0.3, it works now.

As a side note, corporate IT seems force me upgrade to TB3 for whatever reason I don’t know, so I put a shortcut on my desktop to downgrade to TB2 – I believe I’ve run this “downgrade” close to 50 times in the past 3 months, luckily I no longer need to do it.

The new thunderbird is cute

I don’t want to say it’s good, as I feel performance is not that great compare with the old version. However, the look-n-feel is neat, makes it a cute product and makes me thinking – the old version is too “formal”.

It seems in now a day, people care UI more than functionality, if I had the choice I would not upgrade to the new version so that I can keep my productivity, but it’s a pity it was set to upgrade automatically (I made the setting? not sure).

Will (have to) keep using it till I get familiar, anyway I don’t have any other alternative, yet, or maybe it’s the time to look for alternative.

Test from Yahoo Mail

Yahoo mail is trying to do something similar to Microsoft’s Live Writer, let’s see how it works …