Email nirvana...

Inspired by the recent lifehacker post on Your Ultimate Email Setup I decided that it was time to do something about my increasingly difficult to manage and tedious email setup.  

I took the plunge and set up one GMail account to rule them all, the idea being that using the IMAP support in GMail I could still use Mail.app (as god intended), but also check messages from my phone and reply to any account from any internet connection (kind of thing).

Setting up GMail to fetch mail and reply from different accounts was easy and is widely documented.  

What is not so obvious was how to set up Mail.app to reply from different aliases or email addresses when using the same GMail account.

It turns out that what you need to do is enter each of the multiple addresses or aliases you want to use as a comma separated list in the Email Address field on the Account Settings screen.  So something like this....

All these different addresses will then appear in the From selection box when you're composing a new mail. 

Another top tip, is to set the IMAP Path Prefix (under Advanced) to Inbox.

This will make sure that all your mails go only to your Inbox, rather than being duplicated in another mysterious IMAP Mailbox.

I'd never used Mail.app with IMAP before but had heard people mention about it's lack of multiple account support and having to mark messages as read twice and so on.  Hopefully this will help!

Old Blog Posts

Oh, I forgot to mention that the old blog posts are all still available here : http://wiredupandfiredup.co.uk/blog/index.html

Bienvenue!

As you can see I've moved the blog over here..  My previous blogging workflow was, well, insanity.   

I use the incredibly brilliant RapidWeaver to create and maintain the site and it has a really neat blog tool which can be set to publish in all kinds of sane and sensible ways. 

However... My site is running in a Java application server so every post required me to package up the entire site as a .war file and upload it to the server. This provided just about enough inertia to ensure that posts were kept to a minimum and were usually about product updates or something similar.

As you can see I've made some attempt to port my RapidWeaver theme (Sprout, if you're interested) to Blogger as well.  I'll continue to tinker with this and of course I'll continue to use RapidWeaver for the rest of the site because it's GRATE (did I mention that?)

Hopefully this will be a much more cromulent approach allowing me to fire off missives whenever I feel like it.  I'd like to hope that this will also see a change in the style of posts.  I plan to : 

1. Post much more frequently 

2. About much more random stuff including but not limited to; Indie Mac Software Development, Freelancing and Consulting, Living in France and pretty much anything that comes to mind.