Twitter is a useful tool, and because of its success and the success of other social computing sites like Facebook and MySpace, some have claimed that email is dead. While I will agree that the advent of these new services has changed the use case for email, I believe email still has many, many years before we send it out to pasture.
Case in point: tonight, Twitter is down. Down for everyone, as reported by the ever useful downforeveryoneorjustme.com web site. The funny part about the screenshot here (and why I took the screenshot) is that right after the site reports that Twitter is down, it asks you to follow it on Twitter! Irony aside, this also illustrates how ubiquitous Twitter has become as tool to reach people on the Internet. Most web sites these days have a Twitter badge on the contact page right next to (or even in place of) the “email us” button.
It’s hard to imagine that Twitter will be down for days or even hours, but the point is that it is down. For everyone. Does email ever go down for everyone?
Email may “go down” for you, and maybe even for your entire domain, but for email to be down for everyone it would literally mean that the Internet is down for everyone!
Why? Because nobody owns email. Anyone can set up an email server — and millions have. Email is distributed.
May 30th, 2009 in
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Emailchemy 9.8.8 is now available on the website. This maintenance release includes:
- Improved Entourage Recovery converter recovers more deleted messages
- Entourage converter now extracts meeting accepted/rejected response messages
- Fixed Google Apps Uploader’s handling of messages with quoted-printable and base64-encoded text bodies
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Emailchemy 9.8.7 is now available on the website. This maintenance release includes:
- Conversion logging now available in CLI
- Conversion log now using syslog format
- GUI Bug fixes for Google Apps Uploader and Entourage Archive wizard
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March 21st, 2009 in
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Emailchemy 9.8.6 is now available on the website. This maintenance release includes:
- Performance improvements for Google Apps Uploader
- Configurable number of automatic retries in Google Apps Uploader command line interface
- Claris Emailer 2.0 converter now preserves international characters
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March 2nd, 2009 in
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Enough people have trouble with importing email into Outlook or trying to create PST files that we felt it necessary to give an explicit walk-through of detailed instructions. We’ve also been experimenting with answering tech support requests with video “screencasts”, so I’m putting them both in this post for future reference.
Outlook has many advanced features and the user interface presents many different ways to perform any given task, but the problem is that not all results are consistent. After much experimentation, we’ve found a sequence of actions that will work in most circumstances.
The screencast starts with the act of converting Entourage email, but you could substitute the converting of any supported format. For example, you could use these instructions to move a standard mbox file into Outlook, too, as a general way to convert mbox to PST files.
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February 8th, 2009 in
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Dealing with the prospect of a “digital dark age” is one of the reasons why we built Emailchemy, but I’ve found that many have trouble with this new term because they may not be familiar with the definition of the original. The term “Dark Ages” refers to a time period between the fall of Rome and the Age of Enlightenment, and historians often referred to it as “dark” because there is little in the way of contemporary written history or literature.
The concept of the “Digital Dark Age” is similar, in that through the use of proprietary file formats we may be setting the stage for a future Dark Age because we will no longer have the legacy technology required to read those proprietary file formats.
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Some people have written in confused about why Emailchemy converted so many more emails than their Inbox was showing. While perhaps alarming, it’s not cause for concern. To say it simply, Emailchemy extracts deleted messages from many email storage formats, and if you don’t want that to happen you should use the “Compact Mailbox” or “Compact Database” feature of your old email application before doing the conversion.
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January 27th, 2009 in
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Here’s a walkthrough I recently sent to a customer who had questions about how the Google Apps Uploader works. I’m posting it here for future reference.
1) Using either the “Conversion Wizard” or “Advanced Conversion” tool in Emailchemy’s toolbox, convert your mail to Standard mbox Format, giving it a name like “converted”.
2) Switch over to Emailchemy’s Google Apps Uploader tool, select the “converted” folder and enter the target email account’s address (the account that you want to receive the uploaded messages) and leave the default settings for the other options for now.
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Emailchemy 9.8.4 was released on January 7 with better handling of Eudora for Mac email and the ability to recover deleted messages from Entourage Database files. This update is recommended for all users converting Eudora for Mac email.
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Are you already on Twitter? Probably; we’re getting to this late, but we hope you start following “weirdkid” on Twitter.
Often times, there isn’t much to say beyond “hey, check out this link” or “new version ready for download” and microblogging, like with Twitter, is the perfect venue for when writing a full “real” blog post isn’t really needed or convenient at the moment. For example, Twitter “tweets” (as they are called) were designed to be sent from a mobile phone as a SMS text message, so they are naturally limited to be no more that 140 characters long. And, we can post them while sitting in a meeting, or walking to the next one, riding the bus, while writing code, or even waiting on line at Starbucks.
January 9th, 2009 in
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Twitter is a useful tool, and because of its success and the success of other social computing sites like Facebook and MySpace, some have claimed that email is dead. While I will agree that the advent of these new services has changed the use case for email, I believe email still has many, many years before we send it out to pasture.
