Pages tagged “email”
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01 Dec 2014
A threatening schedule
Having written code to generate user messages, I know how hard it can be. This email reminder came into my inbox recently and spooked me a bit! “Alert - Make a will” sounded just a little threatening. As it happens, it was a legitimate reminder - I could’ve picked a better title for my appointment, I suppose.![](/images/old/field/image/email-volume_hu4f52290f87989ef52608206c1561116f_36098_100x0_resize_q75_gaussian_2.png)
18 Mar 2013
Crunching the Cloud
The news that Google Reader is to shut down is disappointing. Anyway, it made me think: “what if Google closed down GMail?”. There’s no indication that they plan to, but I don’t like the idea that it might go away one day. So I checked out a few solutions and have downloaded my email using Gmvault. It’s a script that, once you authenticate it with your Google account, merrily churns away, saving your emails into files organised by month.![](/images/old/field/image/ifttt_hu7443e2534b0fb86ea2f7b5710cfc1998_29473_100x0_resize_q75_gaussian_2.png)
09 Jul 2012