I wish it was as easy to train email as it was to train a dog. Or at least train the “master”. Just days after my first email tragedy I am suffering from yet another loss. Sniff.

I do a lot of emailing via web mail. Then when I get back to my regular computer I download it all and sort it accordingly. Problem with downloading and sorting accordingly is that once I download it to my computer, it’s gone. It is then on my computer, and my computer alone. This means I cannot access it from elsewhere, and I cannot retrieve messages I accidentally deleted (as I recently did).

So, I decided to enable IMAP for mail, so my desktop and web mail clients will always sync up and I will have a copy of everything wherever I go. I use IMAP elsewhere and it works great.

Yesterday I configured my web mail for IMAP.

Today I log in, and immediately notice things are missing.
Trash Folder - Gone
Spam Folder - Gone
Drafts Folder - Gone
Sent Mail Folder - Gone.
Saved Mail Folder - Gone.
Clients Folder - Gone.

A few days ago, which the click of a radio button I deleted a massive amount of email, some important, some not. IT pissed me off. I blogged about it. Yesterday, I repeated the event in another program.

Someone smack me and tell me to leave things alone. Now, I truly am starting from scratch with all my email. Arrrgh!

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I love that command. It has to be one of the best commands ever put on a computer. I use it and abuse it more than I care to say. And it has saved me from hours of work redoing things on more than one occasion.

However, sadly it cannot undo things I did the day before. I cannot sit down at my computer on a Sunday night, and pres Edit Undo to undelete the email I deleted on Saturday. Bummer.

It is a powerful function, just not that powerful.

Lately I have noticed my computer has been acting oddly, a little sluggish, and more specifically some programs do not work correctly. No I do not have a virus, yes I defrag, and CCClean it often, so thats not the issue. Not sure what the issue is, but I think I am going to need to wipe the drives and start fresh (before it crashes). So, on Friday I decided to do a backup of one drive. I got it all backed up, plus I backed up all client files incase anything happens.

On Saturday, I was looking at something in my email settings, not sure why or what, but I was looking around. I noticed a little check box saying something to the effect of delete messages more than 30 days old. Not sure why, but I thought it was a good thing. I do not need the messages in the trash more than 30 days old. It’s just trash.

Sunday night I am looking for an email with a username and password in it from awhile back. I cannot find it. Email dates back to July 23 only. Hmm, thats strange. I check another folder, and another and another. The folders that are not empty, only go back to July 23.

Where the hell is my email, why do I have empty folders, and why does everything start @ July 23?

July 23? Thats like a month ago. Why do I have nothing more than a month old … OH CRAP!!! edit Undo. EDIT UNDO! EDIT UNDO!!!!!!!!!

Damn, no such luck. At the flick of a switch I lost everything from more than a month ago. AND the drive I backed up on Friday, was NOT the drive I store email on. Technically all is not totally lost, I did a full email back up a few months ago, so at most I am only missing about 2 months worth of mail. Anything prior to 3 months ago I can reclaim from the archive if needed. But now there is about a 2 month gap where I do not have any email message.

Not a huge deal as it is a relatively short span. But annoying as I am very anal about email. I keep everything except spam. Oh well.

Lesson 1 learned. Back up often.

Lesson 2 learned. Don’t mess with the settings

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Well not really.

I am having issues with my phone lines. Something corrupt somewehre I suppose. 4 out of 5 jacks do not work, no idea how long the fifth will last.

Anyone who calls and does not get an answer, sorry. Nothing I can do until MTS comes by to fix it.

Sorry for any trouble but as always you can reach me via email or Skype.

Thanks

Myles

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