It looks as thought Youtube has been experiencing an outage. I’m not sure since when it has been happening, but it seems to be quite a while now.
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A friend of mine recently whipped up a message of concern regarding saving the earth. I thought it was done pretty well so am posting it here…
Gmail has finally started giving users IMAP access and I think that its going to be very useful for a lot of users. Up until now I have been using Gmails POP service in conjunction with Foxmail. I loved Foxmail for the fact that you could create multiple accounts and have each of them password protected. This allows many users for a computer but at the same time keeps your data private (you could use different users on the system, but I also have multiple mail accounts, some of which I want password protected). I have not been able to find another application yet that provides the same password protection feature of Foxmail.
Unfortunately Foxmail does not support IMAP as of now, so I have decided to switch to either Thunderbird or Windows Live Mail Beta (henceforth referred to as WLMB). I managed to get WLMB up and running satisfactorily with Gmail IMAP. Here’s how I went about it.
Download WLMB here and install it.
Once done we can begin setting up our account for using IMAP.
Head to your Gmail account and on the Settings->Forwarding and POP/IMAP page (if you don’t see it, its probably because Google is still rolling it out to users, it will show up in a few days).
Once that’s done, fire up WMLB and Add an account.
Enter your e-mail address, password and select ‘Manually configure settings for email account’.
Put in the following settings (don’t forget to specify the login ID):
Once done, WLMB will download your folders and display the list:
The problem is that the folders on your drive do not get automatically mapped to the right folders within Gmail, but rather get mapped to the subfolders within the Gmail folder.
To fix this right click on your account and choose properties->IMAP and specify the following settings:
Once done, your final list of folders should look like this:
Some points to note however are :
- Flagging an item in WMLB Star’s it in Gmail.
- Labels in Gmail show up as folders.
- To add a new Label, add a new folder.
- To apply multiple labels to a message you have to copy them into all the corresponding folders
- When you “delete” an item, it gets “archived” (I have looked high and dry for a solution to this however I have not found one. If anyone has a clue, do let me know)
- Messages moved to Trash get deleted.
Well there you have it. Gmail IMAP all set up and ready to go in your Windows Live Mail Beta.
UHCL seems to be making an effort to getting into the Web 2.0 frenzy. Most of the startups I’ve seen today (and a couple of the older companies) use Blogs as a means of communicating with the public. It makes them seem more friendly and build up a community image. I’ve always thought of suggesting that they start up a blog or a forum of sorts. I would think that a forum would also be a good way to get the student community to interact. Here’s the link to the UHCL CS/CIS Blog.
Go confidently in the direction of your DREAMS!
Live the lift you’ve always IMAGINED.
– Henry David Thoreau
Being the first post on my new blog, I thought it should be something positive.