Settling In

So, here’s another minor update on my getting settled with – something that I’ve been doing piecemeal over the , since these days I’ve found it nearly impossible to sit at my for any prolonged length of time.

Turns out I’ve got whatever strain of flu is going around, so today’s holiday couldn’t have been timed better. Incidentally, spending all morning curled up in bed with a good book (this time it was “Perdido Street Station”:ISBN:0345443020) is one of life’s little pleasures I hadn’t enjoyed in a long, long while, even if I’m coughing and sniffling most of the time.

Following many hints regarding finally having proper ssh-agent behavior, I’ve since stopped using in favor of it (you can find a neat visual guide here if you can’t figure it out for yourself). I will miss the tunneling features, but those can easily be replaced by a few small shell scripts.

And in between trying to figure out why I still can’t print, I’ve been playing around with Notes and To-Do, which seem to play along quite nicely with Gmail IMAP – or at least well enough for me to temporarily remove from my .

Regarding e-mail, I can also report full success on setting up all my Gmail accounts under , syncing those to and having them pop up correctly on after syncing. All I needed to do was type in my passwords again.

And no, I don’t think I will be using to sync my Keychain until I have another go at examining network traffic to see if it is .

Interestingly enough, mail has been on the blink throughout the day – not the best timing considering that I now have two very fast IMAP accounts on Gmail, which are performing wonderfully were it not for the rather pointless and asinine “All Mail” folder/label that engineers decided to make visible over IMAP.

Not only does it serve no real purpose (considering that I don’t really want to assign more than one label/folder to a message), it forces me to download twice as many messages and waste twice the disk space.

I suppose I could blame for (still) not implementing “proper” IMAP folder subscriptions, but I would think that is mostly at fault here – what “All Mail” really ought to be is “All Other Mail” and show you any messages that aren’t assigned to a folder/label.

Now that would be useful.

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