Most people won’t care about this tip but hey…most people don’t read my blog either.
Working on mail, I have to shuffle test messages around all the time. That sometimes means fetching them from one account and storing them in another. Thunderbird provides a nice, simple mechanism for doing this. Set up source and destination mail accounts in Thunderbird. The destination account will have to be an IMAP account, you can’t put mail into a mailbox using POP. You can fetch it, however, so the source account can be a POP account if that’s all you’ve got. Once the accounts are set up, find the message you want to copy. Select the message in the message list and drag it to the account and folder you want to copy it to (alternatively, right click on the message and use either “Copy To” or “Move To”). Voila!
If you’re bold and daring, here’s another tip. Say you want to take an existing message and modify the raw contents before copying it to another account. Easy. Find the message you want to modify and right click on it in the message list. You should get a context menu with an option that says “Save As…”. Select this and save the message to your computer. Now open the message with your favorite text editor and have at it. When you’re done, save your changes and go back to Thunderbird. In the “File” menu, select “Open Saved Message…”. Select the file you just modified and it pops up in it’s own window for you to read. Now, right click in the message body and look for “Copy To” in the context menu. Drill down into the account and select the folder you want to copy the message to. Easy as pie.
Obviously Mac users with single button mice will have to adjust the instructions involving right clicking. Get over it, you should be used to it at this point.
Ryan,
How are you? I’m Frank Ruscica. I’m writing because:
* I have developed a business plan that details how Yahoo can dramatically increase its ad revenue by establishing a popular online market for customized education and career services (CECS) (Previous versions of the plan were praised effusively by executives at Microsoft and Amazon.com.)
* I have just applied for a Media Strategy Analyst position at Yahoo that is a good fit for someone with a plan and background like mine
* An employee referral often improves an applicant’s chances (the identifier for the position is below)
* As is previewed below, delivering specific innovations in search technology is a big part of establishing a popular CECS market
An adaptation of my business plan is online at http://landof.opportunitv.com. The site also contains information about my background.
Here’s an overview of the plan:
Information is the lifeblood of any market.
The more popular an online market gets, then, the more opportunities there are to profit from online media (including media that is generated by software, and media that is created by market participants at a website owned by the market-maker).
Advertisers love media that appeals to the young and upwardly mobile.
The online markets that will create the most lucrative media opportunities, then, are markets that help the young to be upwardly mobile.
The biggest such market will be the market for CECS.
The best way to establish a popular CECS market is to first establish and popularize a transparent online market for the advertisement spaces on single-creator media (e.g., blogs, podcasts). (A transparent market is one wherein all prices are publicly known.)
The latter market will also help the young to be upwardly mobile.
Both markets, then, will give rise to a lot of media that is very attractive to advertisers.
Better still, the markets will also generate revenue from transactions.
Three keys to popularizing the aforesaid ad-space market are:
* opening the market to all media producers
* augmenting the market’s website with features that facilitate the production and distribution of media
* using the site to create branded media that:
* increases awareness of the markets
* showcases participants in the markets
* generates profits
This media can generate significant profits, not least because:
* the nucleus accumbens — the part of the brain that gives rise to psychological addiction — is fired by increased prospects of financial gain
* America is ideally suited to gain many good jobs from the growth of the CECS industry
These profits will become increasingly important as sites like Revver.com collapse the ad-sale margins of sites that host user-created media.
Maximizing these profits on a risk-adjusted basis requires:
* managing a portfolio of media properties and making phased investments in production value
* aligning incentives with a broadcast TV network, so shows that prove popular online and/or through video-on-demand can expeditiously gain the broadest distribution
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Yahoo can easily align incentives with a broadcast TV network, of course.
So Yahoo is well positioned to establish a popular CECS market.
Yahoo’s first steps toward this end should be to recruit the right lead architects for the most scarce and valuable parts of a ‘1.0′ maker of the aforesaid ad-space market, which should be hosted at OpportuniTV.com.
The most valuable parts are:
* the sitcom — Land of OpportuniTV — that is the optimal centerpiece of the markets-maker’s ‘1.0′ media portfolio
* the best software tools for rapidly developing software applications for searching online social/professional networks (e.g., blog networks)
I have developed the premise for Land of OpportuniTV, and the treatment (i.e., detailed outline) of the pilot episode, and both designs are as provably optimal as such designs can be. (My submission to the New York TV Festival’s “one-minute pitch” competition is online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMkKa_U14sY. Details about the pitch competition are online at http://www.newyorktelevisionfestival.com/)
My colleague David Warren is an ACM Fellow computer scientist who has spent over fifteen years developing the software engine that is the ideal foundation for the aforesaid search tools.
So if Yahoo hires me, I will recruit David, and we will be off to the races
As a first step, I applied for the aforesaid Media Strategy Analyst position (Job No. RX1000011893).
I don’t know how you can recommend me for this position, but please let me know if I can help you to do so.
Thanks kindly for any consideration you can extend. Of course, feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, etc.
Best regards,
Frank Ruscica