For the love of Office Emails

Most of us would have resigned from our present workplaces by now! I did the same recently. Now, I belong to that breed of people who love to save/keep e-mails on office email ids saved. For this purpose, people usually take the backup of mails by copying the NSF file for Lotus notes or PST file for Outlook or Thunderbird Local folders and then keep them in hard disk somewhere and forget it later.

That defeats the whole purpose and is like keeping them away trashed and would not be of much help.
Enter Google again to my rescue!
We can upload all important (personal) communication on office email id to a new google account!

Google recently launched IMAP access of their mail
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75725
with its help, I can configure Thunderbird or any other email client I use at Office to make a new email connection, this time to a gmail account

Just follow these steps:
1. Create a new google account and enable its IMAP access ( Enable IMAP in the settings link on top right hand side)
2. In the Local Email Client at your office, go to the menu where you can Add a new account
and Create and Configure the New Google IMAP account as per the instructions in this page:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75725

3. Now you should have two accounts listed in your email client say thunderbird. Now, just just drag and drop emails from office email account in thunderbird to google imap a/c in thunderbird

Do the third step taking mail size and speed of internet at your place in consideration Or the email client may seem to hang. I suggest moving mails to google account in chunks of 50 each.


Let me know of any queries !
-AJ

Bye Bye Coding...

I am writing this article sitting in my cubicle at hp, with a code written in C opened on my system. Lately I have been feeling pretty nostalgic about my job. Not only because this is my first job but also because these are my last few moments officially as a techie. Yeah, I still may do a little bit of this and that of tech during and post ISB. But thats not the same. Officially I am ending my career as a techie. My last few moments with the core of Oracle, SAP, SQL, Telnet, C, pointers, bug fixing, patch building...

Before starting my life as a manager, I have decided to give these last few months their space and enjoy each and every technical moment.

Just a thought I felt like sharing with you guys/gals.

Note : This does not mean that I work really hard et all for my team...in fact I have been

doing just the opposite :-D