Re: [MLUG] New campus e-mail?

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 5/2/06, Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Jonathan King wrote:
> >
> > I predict we'll see a new era of people essentially  blowing off their
> > mizzou.edu accounts (there was a previous era of that, but you might
> > be too young to remember it. :-))
>
> Not sure if you're talking about when I was there (1995 though 2002),
> but I recall a lot of professors getting pissed because nobody checked
> their school e-mail addresses.  That was a major downside, nobody used
> the things but professors often sent performance-critical information to
> them.

Not me. I'd ask people for the email address they actually read. 
These days, I just have them send me email from their preferred email
address to mine, and then everything works fine after that.

> I just got my e-mail from Google that I've been accepted into the GMail
> domain-hosting beta.  It will be interesting to see how it goes; I plan
> to switch our office e-mail over.  One major feature for us is fast,
> reliable IMAP access.

Uh...

>  We are the types that leave everything in our
> inboxes so that we can get the e-mail from anywhere (for this reason POP
> *really* sucks).

That you can do, since it *is* gmail.  (Interaction with POP I don't
know about; but I think you can get it to forward to your pop account
and keep it on the server.  Mess with the preferences, etc.

> I am going to do some trials today loading things in
> and out of my existing GMail account via IMAP to see how it works.

I don't think that will work, but there are lots of "load all my email
up to my gmail account" hacks out there if you look.



I don't think it does yet.

jking

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