Jul. 13th, 2007
Today's birthday greetings
Jul. 13th, 2007 12:41 pmTo a couple of very talented and good people, ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
adamselzer and wcg, many happy returns of the day (and a hearty "Semper Fi!" to the Marine at the End of the Bar). Turns out you share a birthday not only with each other, but with Captain Picard himself, Patrick Stewart. (Neither of you are near as old as he is, thank goodness; Pat's 67 today.)
adamselzer and wcg, many happy returns of the day (and a hearty "Semper Fi!" to the Marine at the End of the Bar). Turns out you share a birthday not only with each other, but with Captain Picard himself, Patrick Stewart. (Neither of you are near as old as he is, thank goodness; Pat's 67 today.)
Stupid bloody Comcast says they still can't get my cable hooked up in the new apartment any sooner than Tuesday the 17th; no cancellations have come in to allow me to be bumped ahead. And it turns out I've already missed two episodes of the new Doctor Who's third season on Sci Fi and will miss another tonight. Grrr. Grump, grump, grump.
The problem: My Songbird, singing_phoenix, and I share an EarthLink account (or rather, I allow her to use one of the five screen names allowed to my account; I signed up years before meeting her). Through some error of mine in establishing settings on the e-mail clients for the various computers she and I both use, all of the e-mails prior to about two months ago for her address seem to have been removed from the ELN servers and downloaded to one or both of my computers (an Apple Mac mini and a Dell WinXP laptop). She cannot access her old e-mails from ELN's Web Mail service or her home/work mail clients, since they are apparently no longer extant on the servers.
Now I have to figure some efficient and cheap way to (a) copy all those old e-mails to a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM and send them to her in Kenya, and (b) organize said disc copies in such a way that she doesn't have to spend endless hours searching for a particular individual e-mail she needs to see/forward/act on by repetitively opening, reading, closing etc.? (I should probably mention that my machines use either Mozilla's Thunderbird [WinXP] or Apple's Mail [Mac]. I think she's been using M$LookOut! Outlook since she got her new HP laptop last month, but I can't swear to it.)
Is there a software program out there for either Windows or Mac OS that will automagically copy down batches of old e-mail and preserve headers, folder structures, etc. as they currently exist on their originating computer? Or am I simply going to have to set aside Ghu alone knows how many hours to individually save each of several hundred old e-mails to a folder or set of folders and filename them uniquely so she can identify them? Any suggestions on how to deal with this problem welcomed.
singing_phoenix, and I share an EarthLink account (or rather, I allow her to use one of the five screen names allowed to my account; I signed up years before meeting her). Through some error of mine in establishing settings on the e-mail clients for the various computers she and I both use, all of the e-mails prior to about two months ago for her address seem to have been removed from the ELN servers and downloaded to one or both of my computers (an Apple Mac mini and a Dell WinXP laptop). She cannot access her old e-mails from ELN's Web Mail service or her home/work mail clients, since they are apparently no longer extant on the servers.Now I have to figure some efficient and cheap way to (a) copy all those old e-mails to a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM and send them to her in Kenya, and (b) organize said disc copies in such a way that she doesn't have to spend endless hours searching for a particular individual e-mail she needs to see/forward/act on by repetitively opening, reading, closing etc.? (I should probably mention that my machines use either Mozilla's Thunderbird [WinXP] or Apple's Mail [Mac]. I think she's been using M$
Is there a software program out there for either Windows or Mac OS that will automagically copy down batches of old e-mail and preserve headers, folder structures, etc. as they currently exist on their originating computer? Or am I simply going to have to set aside Ghu alone knows how many hours to individually save each of several hundred old e-mails to a folder or set of folders and filename them uniquely so she can identify them? Any suggestions on how to deal with this problem welcomed.