Monthly Archives: January 2008

KMail, IMAP, and GMail

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Joe Brockmeier

Wondering if anyone else is experiencing this… I’m using KMail for a GMail account to get mail via IMAP. At least two or three times a day, I have to restart KMail because it just hangs trying to refresh folders … Continue reading →

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Unix and Literacy

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Joe Brockmeier

Had a conversation (well, via email, but that counts, right?) about the importance of command line literacy — things you can do via the command line in Linux that you just can’t do via the GUI — which motivated me … Continue reading →

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Lessons learned…

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Joe Brockmeier

Two lessons in this story… 1) Trying to take revenge out on your employer for being fired is a bad idea to begin with, but you really wind up looking dumb if it turns out you weren’t going to be … Continue reading →

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Automatic BCC’ing with KMail

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Joe Brockmeier

One must-have feature (for me) in any mail client is the ability to automatically BCC an address with outgoing mail. I use this to log all my outgoing mail so that I can verify that mail was sent, for troubleshooting … Continue reading →

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Four years!

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Joe Brockmeier

Holy cats. Looking at the left-hand side of my blog, I see that I first set WordPress up almost four years ago for this blog. January 28, 2004. I’ve actually been blogging longer than that — I ran a short … Continue reading →

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Giving KMail another shot

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Joe Brockmeier

Sometimes, you find an application that “just works” for you, and that’s it — no further exploration required. For instance, after I got Vim figured out years ago, I’ve had very little need or motivation to really examine other text … Continue reading →

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Gmail feature request

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Joe Brockmeier

Google has several products I use daily and hate to think of life without: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, and Google Notebook. I spend the most time in Gmail, and I dearly wish that Gmail was better (totally) integrated with … Continue reading →

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