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Comment on Gmail scare, Pobox, WebFaction and procmail by Matt Jacob

Matt Jacob — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:29:56 +0000

Yep. I’ve used imapsync in the past to mirror my Gmail account to a different IMAP account. But in the scenario I described above (Gmail stops working and you want to continue sending/receiving email), I don’t think having a backup would do you any good. I guess you could reply to whatever you’ve already downloaded, but you wouldn’t be getting any new messages.

FWIW, I’ve since switched (back) to FastMail. I didn’t care for Gmail’s new webmail interface, and in addition to being non-standard, their IMAP performance was abysmal. I’ve been very happy with FastMail’s family plan for managing multiple mailboxes within the same domain.

Comment on Gmail scare, Pobox, WebFaction and procmail by Glen Pfeiffer

Glen Pfeiffer — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:02:44 +0000

I’m a little late to this game, but who cares….

Did you consider using the IMAP interface to create backups of your email? Offlineimap is one such tool. I actually use it and mutt as my primary interface to Gmail. But it could just as easily be setup for backups.

Comment on How I roll: outsourcing critical services by Michael Craig Jr

Michael Craig Jr — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 06:38:05 +0000

Hey, Matt! Sorry to have been out of touch for so long, but I just ran across your blog and wanted to say I love the “How I Roll” idea. I was just looking around at new hosting options and getting frustrated, but have decided to try to give Linode.com a go. I’ll let you know. The other option’s site was a bit of a turnoff, at first glance.
Happy New Year to you and see you around sometime!

Comment on Rainbow sandals: guaranteed bot to gave a guarantee by Matt Jacob

Matt Jacob — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:19:11 +0000

I prefer Keen sandals now. They’re not made of leather, they stay on better, and they have a toe protector. It’s all the benefits of wearing shoes, but without the socks, which is awesome.

Comment on Rainbow sandals: guaranteed bot to gave a guarantee by Lon

Lon — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:58:37 +0000

Rainbow customer service sucks. The sandals are ok but overpriced. I rather get some reefs.

Comment on Good image hosting is hard to find by Matt Jacob

Matt Jacob — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:50:55 +0000

Cool! I wasn’t even aware that an API existed for Picasa Web Albums. They have a Java client library available, which is perfect. I might have to get hacking on this.

Comment on Good image hosting is hard to find by Jesse Allen

Jesse Allen — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:26:42 +0000

You could always roll something yourself… http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/overview.html

Comment on An uphill battle: Rainbow sandals and me by Dr. Brad Taylor

Dr. Brad Taylor — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:23:15 +0000

You obviously don’t understand how business works. What do you propose that the shop owner do? Sell them to you for cost price and foot the bill for express shipping? The internet will always yield lower pricing because there are significantly lower overhead costs. The guy sounds like he gave you good customer service to me. He offered to special order whatever you wanted just so you would be satisfied. You sound like a douche to me.

Comment on Google Apps: impressions after 14 months by Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:45:46 +0000

Completely agree with everything that has been said above.
This problem becomes even more apparant (in my case at least) when you toss in the notion of having two separate Google Apps accounts (i.e. DomainA.com & DomainB.com). I have a personal account that has been with Google Apps since nearly the inception, as well as a Gmail account since early on. Recently, I’ve started my own business (which would not have worked well under the older domain) and decided that I would host that as well on Google Apps….What a disaster that has become!
3 address books
3 docs sites
3 email accounts and logins…
I would love to re-hash it all, but as I’ve been fighting with trying to tie all of it together tonight, I am a little baked on the subject :D Just hit home and felt the need to get one more B session out!

Comment on How I (might) roll: off-site backups by Matt Jacob

Matt Jacob — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:25:00 +0000

True. If Tucson were destroyed, all of my backups would be destroyed as well. Then again, since I’m in Tucson 98% of the time, I’d also be destroyed, and thus, probably wouldn’t care too much about not having any remaining backups. ;-) My most critical files (up to 50GB of them, anyway) are encrypted and stored in my Dropbox account.

My friend Vince pointed out that I should really have dual-redundancy backups since a 1TB drive could easily fail during a recovery operation. I think I’ll add another drive to the set so that one disk at work is 1 week old and another is 2 weeks old.