So I finally understand the beauty of IMAP. I don’t know where I was while everyone else was out installing Thunderbird and simplifying their email accounts, and thus their lives, with IMAP–but I finally get it now.

My workplace is kind of confusing with regard to email. We send and receive a lot of it and at some campuses the staff use Outlook. At other campuses the staff seem just fine with the webmail access through the so-called portal. I never know what kind of access I will have at which campus and I think next term I’ll be at a webmail campus.

Last night a friend said to me, “Girl, get yourself some Thunderbird.” Boy was she right. I now have my umpteen Gmail accounts and my work email routed through the Tbird client and thanks to the glory of IMAP, everything stays in the exact same place as when I last saw it–regardless of where I login. Next week I will go to work and recreate this process for my computers there. Bingo bango.

I lament my technical inability to explain to you how IMAP works, I just know that it does.

Here’s to a slightly more organized new year!