Another reason to love Gmail. I don’t often check the “New Features” page but did today and was delighted to read that I can access my other email accounts through gmail i.e. gmail will essentially act as your email client and import your emails from other pop accounts.
As well as it simply being dead practical to check all your mail accounts in one place and to be able to send mails identifying yourself as one of these mail accounts, you also have the benefit of Gmail’s spam filter which is far superior to that found in Thunderbird. I set up 4 mail accounts in Gmail earlier (5 is the limit) and of the 1200 odd spam mails which came from my domain email accounts all but 3 mails were caught by the Gmail spam filter. Thunderbird barely catches half these days. So for the time being Thunderbird is sidelined.
Staying on a tech subject … Firefox. One of the very few things which always annoyed me about Firefox was when viewing the source code it would open Firefox’s built-in viewer rather than Windows Notepad which is a dead handy program when you want to make a quick change to a page you’re working on. Just recently I found this handy bit of information: just type in about:config into your address bar. Ctrl+F and search for view_source.editor.external. Change it to true. Then search for view_source.editor.path and change the address to the full address of the editor you want to use (HTML-Kit, Notepad 2 or whatever). Dead handy.
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