Gmail

[kingandy]

I now have a gmail account - Yoshiyama (at gmail dotcom.)  Large attachments can reach me there, though I'll still be using andysdrawings (or bennee) for my day-to-day babble.

Note to self: Must speak to stsquad about IMAP and ports and such again some time.

Comments

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

ssh -f -n -N -L 143:localhost:143 andy@bennee.com

Or equivilent in your ssh client, you basically tunnel the imap connection over ssh and you can access the IMAP on bennee.com as though it was on your machine.

[kingandy]

That actually doesn't make any more sense to me than last time. You're going to have to walk me through it.

Isn't there an easier way now that I'm actually in the same house?

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

No, you connect via wireless connection and the reason I run IMAP over ssh is to keep the plain text password encrypted. I can walk you through it though, its not hard.

[kingandy]

Yeah, it just seems a little redundant to be picking up my mail via the net when it's physically ten feet away. Almost defeats the object...

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Little more than 10 feet away. Anyway we can sort it out when I see you next.

[tractorb.livejournal.com]

May have to jump on the bandwagon sometime. Even my cousin's boyfriend's got gmail... Plus I need a new email address! Can you guys help me once I've moved in? (I don't always get on well with computers!)

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'll send a gmail invite. You can have a bennee.com address as well if you want...

[gowhonker.livejournal.com]

Andy, that is a really stupid address name.
The difference being, before you could say "kingandy, one word, Kingandy" now you have to say "y o s h i y a m a at..."

Am i alone in the world in thinking that e-mail addresses should be easy to spell and easy to remember...

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

So you remember mine right? Thats 3 e's and 2 n's ;-)

[kingandy]

Strangely, Kingandy was already gone. As usual, I took one of my roleplay characters and used that name.