Virtually Authentic

There are three ways to access a mail server: for webmail via POP3 or IMAP. In the first case opens a web page where the query and organize mail in the last two is necessary to use an email client, and the big difference from one protocol to another is that how we manage our messages. In the case of POP3 is supposed to transfer all messages to our computer and the management carried out locally in case of IMAP messages remain always on the server.

In my case I use Outlook to manage my mail, contacts and calendar, as I like to have all the information synchronized on multiple computers I use nothing better to let the mails stored and organized on the server and so I use IMAP, the rest is synchronized to the phone and then phone for each computer. When I use a computer that is not enough to me to open my webmail and there were all my mails.

This system works well, but ultimately was forced to see me often refer to GMail, which not only gives out the organization (the emails began to disperse between two accounts) and becomes a waste of time. I then decided it was time to end the redundancy of having two email accounts, which left me with two alternatives: to redirect my mail to my GMail account in DotPT or vice versa.

How I love the GMail web system decided to change everything back and since yesterday I'm using GMail as mail server. The only difficulty I encountered was in transferring the 512MB mail from my server there and it was solved with a ruby script that I will soon publish.