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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo make Thunderbird re-send 100s of emails from different senders?

« Last post by Curt on December 29, 2008, 06:52 AM »

... just drag'n'drop the folders between accounts in Thunderbird ?

Just tried it here with a few emails and it worked fine.

-4wd (December 28, 2008, 06:21 PM)

@4wd, did these emails keep their original sender addresses (in gmail), or do they now appear as if they were mailed from you to you?


Congrats on #300   

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo make Thunderbird re-send 100s of emails from different senders?

« Last post by Curt on December 28, 2008, 05:55 PM »

- wow, this sounds really cool, J-Mac - I sure will look into such a fancy model, also! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo make Thunderbird re-send 100s of emails from different senders?

« Last post by Curt on December 28, 2008, 10:37 AM »

... I am now also trying out the free version of MailStore.

-Curt (December 28, 2008, 04:16 AM)

- all emails stored in dat files? No thank you, not for a Backup job!

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Thanks, Carol, I will study Shoemate's article closely.

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I am wondering if I merely can copy+drag&drop all emails into Gmail Drive ? I will test this further, but now the supper is on the table :-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cannot open Paint on Vista

« Last post by Curt on December 28, 2008, 08:59 AM »

My Paint has begun working again! 
- however, I don't know WHY!

@ Sarah, you might want to open your task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) and see if "WindowsMediaPlayer-NetworkSharingConfiguration-something" is running. Mine was, which I don't understand. The "NetworksharingService" should (probably) be running, but not the Configuration thingy. Anyway, I closed it, and right-clicked msPaint.exe (in the task manager),> "Properties", and stumbled my way around in the box that came up. I didn't change anything, I merely clicked this and that - OKay'ed and closed the box and the task manager, and started Paint. And voila! Now Paint is running as it should. Also after rebooting. But I don't know WHY this helped, because the strange configuration thingy is now running again but paint is still working.

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo make Thunderbird re-send 100s of emails from different senders?

« Last post by Curt on December 28, 2008, 04:16 AM »

.. be careful gmail doesn't think you're a spammer or a hacker because you're hammering one account with a ton of e-mails all at once. Good way to get your home e-mail account banned - or reported to your ISP.

-40hz (December 27, 2008, 02:54 PM)

I never imagined such an outcome. Thanks for warning! 


I think I already have what could be needed, what goes for local backup programs, but of course I am now also trying out the free version of MailStore. A pity that one has to purchase the $340 server version with 10 licenses, for simple automation features. My normal day to day backup program is placed in Start and will backup all day long. I would expect for an email backup program to at least offer a one-click-BackupNow!-button in the sys-tray, or something a like.

I was very impressed with Aid4Mail, Jim. Fifty bucks are just too much for me at the moment (how long can a moment be?), but Thanks for telling!

So my question is: How do I make Thunderbird re-send several hundred emails (an entire folder), from various companies, from my home computer to my gmail account, in one go?

-Curt

- thanks to the warning from 40Hz, my question should no longer include "in one go".
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo make Thunderbird re-send 100s of emails from different senders?

« Last post by Curt on December 27, 2008, 07:07 PM »

hey... too many choices!! 

It is two at night, and you made me feel like Mr Bean spinning with a turkey on his head - I think I will let this subject and my head rest for tomorrow! Thanks for all the answers    and good night!

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General Software Discussion / HowTo make Thunderbird re-send 100s of emails from different senders?

« Last post by Curt on December 27, 2008, 02:29 PM »

I know that I sometimes am too fast for my own good, but most of the times I am too slow. As an example, I have only today realized how smart it can be to have a g or y -mail account to be used as a backup media for emails containing software licenses. Even though I have had such accounts for a while, I only saw the backing-up potential now. So, for a couple of hours I have been trying to figure out how to make Thunderbird re-send several hundred emails from various companies to my gmail account. So far, I have only managed to make it send a handful at the same time, even though I had marked several hundreds. Then I could of course send a handful a hundred times, but, you know, if you feel certain that it easily can be done "right" in a different way, you really don't want to do it any other "wrong" way, even if you have to use a lot more time than it otherwise would have taken. At least that is how I feel about it today, being off for Christmas and such...

So my question is: How do I make Thunderbird re-send several hundred emails (an entire folder), from various companies, from my home computer to my gmail account, in one go? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quizo QTTabbar

« Last post by Curt on December 27, 2008, 12:21 PM »

Thanks, Phil.

However, seconds after I had posted the question, I suddenly noticed that QT's search box was smaller than usual, and I realized it had been so for a while. So I grabbed the right edge, and dragged the box wider, towards the right edge of Explorer. And voila! Explorer made itself wider, to adjust to the search box. I closed & restarted Explorer. Yes, it was good. I closed & restarted Vista, Yes, it is still good. Problem solved, without knowing why.

Sorry for taking up your time, but it seems I sometimes have to form a question, before I can find the answer (sounds quite logic, come to think of it)!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quizo QTTabbar

« Last post by Curt on December 27, 2008, 11:55 AM »

This question of mine may have nothing to do with QTTabbar, or it may even have been caused by QTTabbar:

How do I force Vista Explorer to reset & remember window size?  

The problem is that I keep changing Explorer's window to the (same) size I want, but the next time Explorer opens, the window will have the wrong size again. And again, and again. I have even tried to push the terrible "make all folders show columns this way", hoping it would provoke the change I am wanting, but to no avail. One tab will always be forced to create a new row of tabs, and it doesn't look good. But worse, the tab is not placed where I will look for it, because it always is the most right tab that jumps to now being the most left tab in a new row.

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General Software Discussion / Re: firefox preloader

« Last post by Curt on December 27, 2008, 06:35 AM »

If you are in a situation like me, you will have realized that either your computer has far too little RAM, or maybe you have to many programs, or the programs are simply too slow. Whether be it one or the other reason, I have found that a program like eBoostr actually can do some good in a situation like this! Of course the proper solution is to purchase an even stronger computer, but I already had a license for eBoostr, and my PC only has room for 2x2 GB RAM, so I didn't have to think too hard before activating this artificial memory, eBoostr. I have allocated all of the extra memory to Firefox only. And it works!! Firefox has not become *lightening* fast, but it is though a lot faster than before.

eBoostr 2 for XP and below, eBoostr 3 Beta for Vista. They give you a free temporary license for testing the Beta until February, so go ahead and try if it will work for you as well.

There are of course other solutions than eBoostr.

www.eboostr.com

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Curt on December 27, 2008, 05:28 AM »

maybe not so 'welcome' then 

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Curt on December 27, 2008, 04:06 AM »

- maybe not that far away, if you keep the same rate as previous: Two posts in your first ten minutes! 

Welcome at DC, moonlight. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: firefox preloader

« Last post by Curt on December 26, 2008, 04:54 PM »

don't take it personnally, gorinw13, f0dder is just not much of a fan of the Christmas season, I guess, if I should try to be polite. Just bad luck that Christmas goes on until Easter... they say.

I was using this Preloader from time to time for half a year, but now I have realized that FF is faster WITHOUT the Preloader, because it doesn't take advantage of Vista's superfetch.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The OS that won't die!

« Last post by Curt on December 26, 2008, 07:04 AM »

thanks everybody

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regarding the thread:

Of course, with programs like THIS, XP may survive a little longer :-)



Thanks to gHacks for telling

The default language of the software is Polish but it can easily be changed in the config.ini to English so that the language line looks like this: language=english. The only options provided by the interface are to enable or disable the blur effect.

-gHacks

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General Software Discussion / Re: posted at Elite Freeware

« Last post by Curt on December 25, 2008, 11:23 AM »

Edited:
very nice re-discovery, cmpm  

At DonationCoder's we are so well informed that we are bound to forget some informations 

- well, some of us, that is.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: posted at Elite Freeware

« Last post by Curt on December 25, 2008, 07:17 AM »

http://www.alexnolan.net/software/

-cmpm (December 25, 2008, 02:40 AM)

Very nice find, cmpm! 


However, the reason BlueRay is not mentioned at the opticalinfo page is that the program does not recognize it. Your drive may support BlueRay, but Opticalinfo won't tell you.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The OS that won't die!

« Last post by Curt on December 25, 2008, 06:34 AM »

- sure, you clever cat, but quite frankly I don't know anyone that has a CD for Win2000Pro (for which the key is on (inside) the blocked machine only). Most people just stare at me with this special kind of look in their eyes, "What operating system was that?", or even "What kind of disc?" In my circle of acquaintances no-one is a computer expert, and in my physical neighbourhood no-one even has a computer - or they are running Win98, or Vista, or Mac.

But I have gotten my hands on a XP disc, so in the next couple of days I will try to improve on that one machine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cannot open Paint on Vista

« Last post by Curt on December 25, 2008, 06:17 AM »

... now my organgutan is playing with his train set (I jest not):

-Carol Haynes (December 24, 2008, 06:31 PM)

I don't handle the English language too well, but shouldn't it be "organ gut san"? 

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Yeah, I know, I am not too good with jokes, either. But Merry Christmas, anyway! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Calendar Math, which language to use?

« Last post by Curt on December 24, 2008, 07:16 PM »

- you're of course welcome.

@ housetier, you might want to know that there is a microscopic problem with the coding of your otherwise very fine pages  versus  the translating service you are using. You are using ISO 8859-1, but the service is using UTF-8, which means that I can never see both parts properly. Either your characters are displayed correctly, and their wrongly, or vice versa.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Calendar Math, which language to use?

« Last post by Curt on December 24, 2008, 06:00 PM »

If your company has a server with PHP, you can set up iZeit as you please

http://www.izeit.nu/
http://www.izeit.nu/features

Repeating events

Similar to Microsoft Outlook, each event can be assigned an interval with which it recurs. Extensive patterns are available, allowing you to set an item to recur on the nth day of each month, every other thursday, or virtually any other conceivable pattern.

-iZeit

Edited:
free, but donations are asked for.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cannot open Paint on Vista

« Last post by Curt on December 24, 2008, 05:38 PM »

Yes, I guessed you were on IE. But IF you had been using Firefox, you would have seen Firefox install the file ONLINE, simply by you opening the file when it asks you what should happen. This is a very fine feature.

Further more, as Carol said, you don't HAVE to have the file placed in the Mozilla folder, if you choose to download it (which you shouldn't, if you met it at Mozilla's), because Firefox will place it the proper place, if you open it via FF's "Files > Open...".

Now remember to hang up a sock of yours tonight, Sarah. Preferably by the fireplace  :-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cannot open Paint on Vista

« Last post by Curt on December 24, 2008, 12:03 PM »

deleted - I misunderstood the post I was trying to answer

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cannot open Paint on Vista

« Last post by Curt on December 24, 2008, 08:45 AM »

- thanks, f0dder. When you search Microsoft's site there are thousands of files to be downloaded. So why not these? Now it should be noted that Vista's Paint is new, and there is no place (that I know of) to tell Windows that mspaint somehow is not working - other than to post a question on their forum, and hope that someone will answer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cannot open Paint on Vista

« Last post by Curt on December 24, 2008, 07:01 AM »

- thanks for going to so much troubles, April :-) However, Vista has been simplified~restricted a lot on this feature. There are no boxes or anything. Only third party programs, and a little number of services to enable or disable, but no Windows programs or extra popups. I have even used a clever Master Control (from Fujitsu Siemens) to have it tell me what can be changed or not.

It is hard for me to believe that it should not be possible, well EASY, to find a (new) version of msPaint somewhere at Microsoft's, to download & install.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Never again will I purchase that shampoo! (or will I?)

« Last post by Curt on December 24, 2008, 05:22 AM »

just wait a month or two and you'll get the email offering you to upgrade at 9.99

-iphigenie (December 18, 2008, 04:41 AM)

It didn't even take that long. I am now the not-so-proud owner of 5.185 yiggles and WinOptimizer version 6.0. This time I actually ran the program, before forgetting about it! I don't see any difference in my computer's behaviour before vs after, but I haven't noticed any flaws either. One of the several features that I disabled, before running the optimizer, was the "remove those 1.2 GIGAbytes files you have which you don't need". No informations was given on which files were included. Am I really expected to delete 2.500 files without knowing anything about their identity, other than WinOptimizer thinks I don't need them?? This is not the way to do this, Ashampoo!!! Apart from this major lack, the program is nice & capable, as expected. And easy to use, also as expected.

The upgrade price is below $10, as expected by iphigenie. Female intuition?

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I didn't dare to run the registry cleaner.