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Comment: Google Apps, Emailchemy, Google Uploaders (Score 1) 385

by ahess247 (#33489692) Attached to: Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching?

I recently did something very similar with mail dating back to 1993 or so in multiple mailbox formats (Eudora, PST, Thunderbird mbox, etc.)

Get a Google Apps account http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html
This allows you to run a gmail interface with mail on your own domain.

If you need more than the available storage for free, you can pay for 25 gigs, but it seems like the free level will work for you.

For the PST files, upload them with Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/outlookmigration

Alternately, migrate the PSTs to Thuderbird using Emailchemy
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/

Then, if you're on a Mac (it seems you are) upload to Google Apps via the Google Email Uploader for Mac
http://code.google.com/p/google-email-uploader-mac/

This will upload everything you have in your Thunderbird environment. And it will take some time. At first it may look like the program has frozen, but give it a half hour or so to sort through all your Thunderbird folders, and then let it upload the mail overnight. It took me a few overnight uploads, but it was worth it.

Once you have it in Google its very searchable and flexible. You can for instance re-organize it using labels, and then re-download to Thunderbird via IMAP if you like.

Handhelds

Skype's Next Step: Mobile At Last->

Submitted by ahess247
ahess247 writes "BusinessWeek is reporting that Skype is working with the wireless carrier 3 Mobile on a wireless handset codenamed "the white phone" that will be able to make both conventional wireless calls and VOIP calls via Skype. The phone was developed with a software outfit named iSkoot, is equipped with multimedia capabilities and high-speed data for mobile Web browsing. But its most prominent feature is a big button right above the regular keypad to activate Skype. A press on that button triggers an iSkoot-developed application that brings up a list of a user's Skype "buddies" and regular phone contacts. A click on any entry in that list dials the call. It will be introduced in the UK, Italy, Hong Kong and Australia sometime later this month, though the story says there's no immediate plans to bring the handset to North America."
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The Media

US Spies Penetrate Al Qaeda's Intranet, Until.....

Submitted by ahess247
ahess247 writes "The New York Sun today has an interesting story detailing how U.S. intelligence agencies had penetrated a network of computers they called "The Obelisk" which served as the distribution channel for video messages from Osama Bin-Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri, but which was also used for routine communications and administrative messages to lower-level operatives around the world. But they lost this revealing look into the terrorist network's communications and operations after a Sept. 7 video message was leaked to ABC News. The leak revealed that the network used to distribute the video had been penetrated by US Spies, who watched helplessly in real time as the entire system was shut down. Said one anonymous officer: "We saw the whole thing shut down because of this leak," the official said. "We lost an important keyhole into the enemy.""
Education

Nerds to auction themselves to women->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Looking to recruit more women, and perhaps date some sorority girls, the largest computer club at Washington State University hopes to hold a "nerd auction." The idea is to trade their computer skills to sorority girls in exchange for a makeover and, possibly, a date.

"You can buy a nerd and he'll fix your computer, help you with stats homework, or if you're really adventurous, take you to dinner!" Ben Ford, president of the Linux Users Group, said on its Web site recently."
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Spam

Obama Spamming

Submitted by Moryath
Moryath writes "This might deserve to be an Ask Slashdot, or somewhere else, I don't know, but recently a number of my spam-trap email addresses (addresses I keep just to compare to my normal inbox for spam filtering) have been seeing daily emails from the Obama presidential campaign asking for donations.

I tried using the unsubscribe link, which failed to operate; I sent the campaign an email directly , and received a form response thanking me for "joining" their campaign and asking me to donate. Phone calls to the campaign office have been uniformly dismissive — 90% of the time they just hang up, the other 10% they put me on hold claiming to be "getting someone who can fix this" and then drop the call.

It's obvious that they have no intentions with complying with my request to get off of their email system — and equally obvious that they have padded their supposed "record number" of supporters by purchasing bulk email lists from spammers. Why should we support politicians who behave in this way and don't respect our rights? And what would Slashdotters suggest as the next step to deal with a politician who simply refuses to follow the law?

For the record, I'm a registered independent, and so far my only intention for the campaign is to point and laugh at Ron Paul."
United States

AT&T Network Down in East Coast

Submitted by Vega27
Vega27 writes "confirmed by the AT&T support folks, there network is down (Since First Reported at 7AM EST) for all of North Carolina/South Carolina/Tennessee .
iPhones and Normal AT&T phones are unable to access the at&t voice network. No ETA on when the network will be fixed."

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