I have an email system where anything@jacob…com will land in my inbox. That makes it really easy to give a custom email address to different people/sites so I can filter my email based on the TO address.

I didn’t receive a single email about the Olympics in all of that time. But I have received emails from Rotoworld.com about some sort of Fantasy sports thing.

What does this mean? The only person I gave that particular email address to was NBCOlympics. If I’m getting other email to that address, the only conclusion is that NBCOlympics sold off or gave away my email address to others.

Not that I’ll be bothered by the spam, because I’ve now switched all email to that address to arrive in a special spam email account.

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I thought an appropriate label for these types of messages would be Voicemail.

When I tried this, it returned the following error message:

System specific names are not allowed. Please try another name.

I don’t understand why Voicemail would be a system specific name, unless Google has something special coming to Gmail.

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However, recently I found that I’ve accumulated 2500 messages in my inbox. I’m not sure it is necessarily a bad thing, but it is something I’m trying to fix.

I use Gmail, which has a great archive feature. I can archive the email message, getting it out of my inbox, but without deleting it. The messages are still available through search, or through any labels which have been applied to the message.

I think sorting out the inbox will take me a while–to go through 2500 messages, but I’m making progress. Maybe sometime by Christmas I’ll actually see the bottom of it.

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• Message Tags (labels)
• The ability to “star” messages
• Gmail integration

This seemed like a great new feature set, especially the Gmail integration.  As I played with the new version though, I found that the Gmail integration was less than I fully desired.  I was hoping that the message tags and stars would be able to be applied to my Gmail box, and the changes actually reflected in Gmail.  However, I learned that the Gmail connection is simply a POP mail connection, which means changes on the local system are not reflected at all on the server.  So for now, using Thunderbird with Gmail allows you to star a message, but the star never gets posted back up onto the Gmail server.

Hopefully someday integration will be more integrated.  That level of integration, however, would require Google to publish an API for Gmail.

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All it takes is a couple of email lists to go a couple days and the unread emails stack up like nothing else. Particularly, the BYU webmasters list and the Nutch users list kept me quite busy.

In other news, I think the spellcheck feature of the Google Toobar is pretty cool.

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Some of it reminded me of days from 1995, except where he describes email addresses, which pretty much is increasingly valid.
Choice quotes:

• Middle school kids are all idiots
• 1001101011001
• The word technology means magic
• And if [technology] breaks, you have to buy a new one
• Diskettes was invented by computers to help us, like how cows invented milk

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http://macgpg.sourceforge.net is the best place to start off. If you want to understand in great depth about all the stuff, you should read the FAQ document (RTF).

First download and run the GNU Privacy Guard installer. This will install all the GPG tools onto your system. However, unless you like using the command line, you probably want to install a couple of graphical programs. I suggest GPG Keychain Access which will help you create and manage keys. I also suggest GPGPreferences which will help you configure the GPG tools, although you probably won’t need to do much with it.

You will probably want to create yourself a key which you will use to sign your emails. You can do this in the GPG Keychain Access program.

Next, you will want to make sure your email program is configured to use your GPG key. If you are using Mozilla Thunderbird, then you can install the GPG plugin called Enigmail. If you are using Apple’s Mail program, you should download, install, and use a plugin available here.

Follow any of these instructions at your own risk. I am not responsible if you or these programs screw up your computer.

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I plan to read this some day. Its about how to set up a web based (maybe also Imap) mail server for cheep. It might be useful in what I want to do someday with peargrove communications.

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