Cor, memory lane....

I was browsing my old email folder on my old (ie: pre-G4, pre-new iMac)
iMac, looking for a confirming email giving the registration code for
some software I bought.....

And found a crop of emails from Windy. And a number of other regulars,
past and present, about this and that.

Normally I tend to purge personal emails older than a year or so, but
when they're sitting on an old machine they stay there.

How long do people tend to keep personal emails for, anyway?

 

I delete most stuff, but I have got stuff going back to when I got my
first iMac, back in '99.

 

Personal emails get automagically archived off into a separate folder
after about 6 months and then compressed to save disk space. But I don't
really delete any of them.

 

That sounds like rather good practice or being slightly anal. I'm not
sure which.

 

Sent-mail, indefinitely (dating back to mid 1998)
Received mail, indefinitely, but only if it's interesting. So not much
really.

 

Actually it's more the lazy man's way to make sure that the mail clients
can cope with my rather large mailboxes. Most IMAP clients get seriously
slow when you've got 20,000 mails in a single mailbox so archiving them
off is the only reasonable way to handle it.

Archiving off the the much smaller personal emails folder kinda fell out
of that for free.

 

The Older Gentleman said...

Until Windows or Outlook crashes and needs reloading.

 

"ding"

 

I have some sentmail/inbox stuff shuffled around from account to
account for a while.

<fx: checks>

Earliest sentmail: 1989 (ex Uni-account)
Earliest inbox entry: 1993 (ex Spuddy's account)

both - hilariously - to people now dead.

 

On that topic.... anyone know how to export Outlook Express Folders? I've
had a furtle round and can't seem to find any sort of utility.

ALi

 

I know what I meant.

 

You use Outlook for home email?

And I thought I was weird!

Phil

 

No - almost everybody uses Outlook Express.

 

I think you missed this bit:

"And it has much better security than the abortion named "Outlook
Express".."[1]

Phil.

[1] Otherwise known as Outlook "bury me in a y-shaped coffin" Express

 

Call me a pedant.

I don't need one of those at home. Or rather, if I did, I'd use
Outlook on my laptop VPNed into the office.

 

My earliest one's from her too, on the grand assumption one of yours is
the same

Always seems to get missed from the cleardown. Call me an old
(senti)mental.

P.

 

I don't either. Well, except on the one week in three when I'm on
3rd-line support.

 

look at the dates, you arse.

 

Ta! I am most obliged to you.

Ali

 

You seem to be implying that VPN would only work with his _company_
laptop. This is not necessarily so.

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