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South America

I’m back from my journey through the heart of south america.  I might actually start posting stuff here occasionally for shits and giggles so I decided to post my pictures here (it also happens to be the easiest place to upload pictures). You can find them at below or at the photos link above.  Hope you like em. I’ll post links to justin & bryan’s pics if/when they ever get them posted online.  I might start a series of posts telling about our whole trip in retrospect.  We’ll see how bored I get.  

Migrating from Gmail to Windows Live Mail

I couldn’t find this on the net but through some trial and error I think I’ve got the best way figured out. I wanted to have all my email be in Windows Live Mail.  My school just started using this for it’s email hosting (switching from a crappy service hosted on a unix server on campus) and I wanted to take advantage of the sweet email address.  But, how do I get 4 or so years worth of email from my gmail inbox to live mail? The obvious solution is to configure pop3 in gmail and set your live mail to download email from it.  The problem is it screws up the date (gives the emails todays date) and will only download some of the messages and keeps grabbing duplicates. To get around this, here’s what I’m doing…

 

1. Download and install windows live mail from http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview
2. Go into the gmail settings and enable pop3 for only new mail (we’ll change this in a few though). Make sure you have it set to "keep gmail’s copy in the inbox".
3. setup both accounts, the new windows live account and your old gmail account
4. In windows live mail, right click on the gmail account in the left pane and select properties
5. Go to the advanced tab
6. Drag the server timeout all the way to the right
7. Uncheck the box for "Leave a copy of messages on server".  Don’t worry, they will still be kept in your gmail inbox unchanged.
8. Click OK.
9. Now go back to the gmail settings (on the web) and change the pop3 to enable mail for all time.  And again, make sure you have it set to "keep gmail’s copy in the inbox".
10. Now go to the send/receive in the windows live mail application and select gmail. 
11. Sit back and enjoy the show as all your emails are downloaded. It will probably stop every once in a while so you might want to keep clicking send/receive when it does.
12. Once it gets them all downloaded, you may want to clean up and get rid of some of the crap (I almost never delete emails from my gmail).
13. Now select all your messages and select "move to folder" (or "copy to" if you’d like to keep them all saved locally) and select your windows live inbox (or a subfolder). You might have to do them in batches.  Also, your sent mail will come in with all of your inbound mail so the easiest way to move it to the sent items folder is to sort by "From" and find your name in the list and move them that way.
14. Send/receive your live account and after it uploads the messages, they should all be on the server!