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.mac alias
I thought I was being really clever. I set up a .mac alias for Mr and Mrs McMuffin so that we could email people without giving away our real address. I set up a separate account in Mail and I thought that was that. But, the way it all works is that it duplicates your in box, so instead of currently having 412 messages I ended up with 824. I decided to delete all the messages in the newly created mail box, and YOU know what happened. Yes, I managed to delete all my emails. Fortunately they only go back a couple of months, but I lost quite a few addresses that I hadn't got around to saving in my address book. Oh, well.
mr mcmuffin on 14 Aug 2004 @ 12:55 PM ✲ Permalink
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It duplicates your inbox? Not when I did it! You must have done something else at the same time. Really, it doesn't do anything of the like. Sorry!
Posted by: David (TEFL Smiler) | 15 Aug 2004 05:10:19
Don't you just love all things Mac. It's all so intuitive and user-friendly, so much better than PCs. :-p
Posted by: steve | 15 Aug 2004 08:24:05
Finally he has seen the light. David, did you set it up on your desktop Mail app too, that's where I ran into problems.
Posted by: mr mcmuffin | 15 Aug 2004 09:05:26
No, I didn't know you could set it up in the Mac app. I did it with the online version. But then, my two versions are the same.
(Read the fifth paragraph in this posting that I wrote in January to see what I'm on about: http://teflsmiler.typepad.com/weblog/2004/01/macing_preparat.html .)
I might start deleting lots of old e-mails soon, too - by choice! Unlike gmail users, I'm not bothered about my mails lasting for ever. Most of them don't need to last more than a few seconds!
Posted by: David (TEFL Smiler) | 15 Aug 2004 19:12:48
