Procrastinating
December 19, 2007
So I was sitting here in the computer lab, trying to work on one of my two papers due on Friday. I was having an issue with Gmail in the Apple Mail program, so I went to the Gmail settings online and clicked Enable POP For Mail, but I actually clicked “Enable POP Mail for All Mail (even Mail that’s already been downloaded).” So, before I realized what I did, emails from January 1, 2006 started piling in to my Inbox. As you can see, the final result was 16,954 emails I had to go through and delete.
So much for following the advice of my Desktop Wallpaper: “Do your work. Don’t be stupid.” Blogging will be slow until some finals are done.
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: I am a 28 yr old 
December 19th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
DOOD! You do know that Gmail supports IMAP now right? You gotta switch over from POP…
December 20th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Boy, do I miss Finals @ Christmas!!!
Adam, no matter how rough Christmas gets as a Pastor, I do not believe it could EVER be as rough as Christmas @ Princeton, studying, reading, writing & stressing about final exams and papers. I promise you, it is SO much better on this side of the line!
December 20th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Hrm….Firefox but no Thunderbird? What kind of open-source geek are you, anyway?
December 20th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
LOL
That is rich!
December 22nd, 2007 at 10:09 pm
You aren’t using the IMAP feature for your GMAIL account in Mail.app? tsk tsk.
December 24th, 2007 at 4:46 am
HA! This is hilarious because I just posted on a really similar topic (only I went the IMAP route. Not to beat a dead horse, but why DID you use POP?). Gotta love Leopard though!
December 28th, 2007 at 12:14 am
God, that’s happened to me before. Except I only had about 4 thousand emails download. (Apple A + Delete)
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
That same thing happened to me, too! I tried following Lifehacker’s instructions on backing up your primary Google account and the deluge began. I must have screwed something up.