Phase 2 complete.....

Tonight I finished configuring my system to dial my new ISP (fuse.net aka Cincinnati Bell) and setting up Thunderbird to download mail to it. I'll use that email address for purely personal email. Most of my email lists I'm subscribed to will go to gmail.

Shout-outs: Happy birthday mrgoodwraith!

Phase 3 completed.....sort of.....

I reconfigured Eudora to use IMAP so I could get copies of the outgoing mail messages I sent from my old ISP in the past two years. It worked great....until I decided to delete the messages on the server that were older than 90 days.

I tried to transfer the messages to other folders, but the operation kept failing.

The next time I did a synchronize, I lost the messages that I sent in 2006 and 2007.

Now I don't know if my ISP can recover those messages from a backup. I'll have to call them up and ask them tomorrow (and be prepared to hear a "no"). [Updated 10-Apr 15:50] I called them and no, they don't do backups of mail.

In the meantime, I'm bummed out. I like to keep copies of my correspondence in case I ever need to refer back to them.

But if they're gone for good, I don't have to worry about going through them. :-|