So I am seri­ously con­sid­er­ing now renew­ing my MobileMe/.Mac account when it comes up in 9 months. This is – indeed – quite a bit of type-a over-planning-in-advance, I real­ize, but please bear with me here: I need to get my saved IMAP fold­ers off MobileMe now! I want it on my GoDaddy account now because I get free email there with my host­ing and domain plans! My f-ing domain is there man … I want my username@mac.com saved mes­sages moved – now.

See there? Just had a mas­sive type-a attack – right there, lit­er­ally via my fin­ger­tips thru the key­board out over the Inter­nets and to your inter­net con­nec­tion to your high-speed modem (prob­a­bly) then to a router (still – most have one, nut I real­ize I am now lim­it­ing my audi­ence, yes, how­ever if you are a red­neck on dial-up — still — ? You won’t ever read my blog any­how. I didn’t code it for you bro – you are lit­er­ally learn­ing e-Bay at this very moment, try­ing des­per­ately to fig­ure out why it takes so very long to load-up every image) .. [where was I? Oh yeah!], to your com­puter, up its cir­cuitry (not min­i­miz­ing the audi­ence now tho am I?), to your dis­play and INTO YOUR EYES.

Yes, you felt, just now, quite deeply; a type-a attack. But I digress: I want my saved mail moved! So I’m fol­low­ing the arti­cle below – now. Well actu­ally – fu%k – I bet Godaddy has timed my ses­sion out by now and all because of my damned type-a fin­ger­tips to eyes rou­tine.

From: Mike’s Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Using IMAP with GoDaddy email accounts

Using IMAP with GoDaddy email accounts

I really enjoy using GoDaddy for my domain and host­ing provider. How­ever, there has always been one aspect of their ser­vices that gets on my nerves: email. Let me count the ways:

1. Their email ser­vices limit SMTP for­ward­ing to 250 times per day (that is how many emails you can send each day.)
2. Each mail­box only can store up to 10 MB, unless you pay extra.
3. You can­not use IMAP with their accounts, only POP3 or the website-based email.

For­tu­nately, I found out today how over­come all of these prob­lems in one felled swoop. To sum­ma­rize the process, you use Google Apps instead of the GoDaddy email sys­tem. GoDaddy lets you set all the nitty-gritty details of your account set­tings, includ­ing how your email is han­dled. There is a nice tuto­r­ial how to do this here: http://howbits.com/solved-godaddy-email-step-one-get-google-apps/

Or, if you don’t want to fol­low the instruc­tions at the site above, then you just cre­ate a Google Apps account at http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html , enter your domain name, go to the “Dash­board” page, click on the “Acti­vate email” link, and fol­low the directions.

Another great rea­son to do this is because now you’ll have all the ben­e­fits of hav­ing a Gmail account, but with your own domain’s email addresses instead of @gmail.com addresses. I have never owned a Gmail account, and I still don’t. Yet I use many of Google’s online appli­ca­tions: the search tool on my web­site, my per­sonal cal­en­dar, and now to main­tain my domain-specific email addresses. And yes, that means that I now get the same amount of email stor­age space for each account as some­one a Gmail account gets (over 6 GB at the time of writ­ing this), unlim­ited SMTP for­ward­ing, and IMAP access via my email client (I use Mozilla Thun­der­bird.) And all of this is for free! Who would’ve thought such a thing would be so read­ily avail­able to the pub­lic?
Kudos to Google! They may be get­ting mas­sive and over-controlling of many things, but there are still treat­ing their cus­tomers well.

I have been a mas­sive Led Zep­pelin fan since I was weened off breast feeding.  I love to get the Led out, have all albums, col­lect rare vin­tage live record­ings (FLAC or other loss­less only please), run an old­school Car­ra­cho server for said live record­ings, and damn near cried when they had the reunion show in Lon­don and I didn’t have the money to make that epic jour­ney that would, for me, have been akin to an Islamic per­son return­ing to Mecca.  In short: I’m a big Led Zep­pelin fanatic.  In a recent tweet, Will Wheaton wrote:

I’m cur­rently up to Phys­i­cal Graf­fiti, and have just dis­cov­ered that I don’t have the sound sys­tem, ‘69 Nova, or long hair needed to really do this album justice.

I com­pletely got what he was say­ing and twit­tered him back to please elaborate.  He was already on it, shortly after my reply he had already posted this and I thank the gods for another Zep­pelin soul such as this.  Very elegant…

From: WWdN: In Exile: get­ting the led out

Then as it was, then again it will be
An’ though the course may change some­times
Rivers always reach the sea

While writ­ing today, I’ve been rock­ing my way through all my Led Zep­pelin albums, in order. I’m cur­rently up to Phys­i­cal Graf­fiti, and have just dis­cov­ered that I don’t have the sound sys­tem, ‘69 Nova, or long hair needed to really do this album jus­tice, and wail­ing on my desk like it’s a drum kit really freaks out my dogs

Blind stars of for­tune, each have sev­eral rays
On the wings of maybe, down in birds of prey

The sun is set­ting through my office win­dow, throw­ing long shad­ows and golden light across my yard and into my house. The sky begins to darken behind a hazy gauze of clouds on the edge of a storm the weather man says will arrive Mon­day. My sinuses say it is likely to arrive sooner.

Kind of makes me feel some­times, didn’t have to grow
But as the eagle leaves the nest, it’s got so far to go

Ten Years Gone is the per­fect music for this pre­cise, bit­ter­sweet, slightly melan­choly moment, just before the unsea­son­able warmth of the day gives way to the chill of Feb­ru­ary night. I know that, before I even fin­ish com­pos­ing this post, the sun will drop behind the big tree out­side and I’ll have to close up the win­dows and pull on a sweat­shirt. But for now … just for now … I can pre­tend that it’s the end of a sum­mer day, I’m 10 years younger than I am, and I haven’t a care in the world.

Holdin’ on, ten years gone
Ten years gone, holdin’ on, ten years gone

Now for the third and ulti­mately geek point of this post.  I was able to select the text on WWdN, then right-click and quote it (set-up a cita­tion tem­plate) using ScribeFire – a sweet Fire­fox plug-in.  This is  good rem­edy to answer the ques­tion raised in my last post.  I have a list a mile long for enhance­ments and bug fixes, but this would (at least for now) appear to be the only prover­bial game in town for what I need.

This is going to be a true chal­lenge and I am excited!

This is a GREAT resource on the hike – well worth a read!