Sorting out local and cloud email links

Quite a while back I decided to forward all mail from my main 'gfraser@online.no' account to Gmail, where it was checked for spam and returned to the online.no account.

Yesterday I split the online.no and Gmail accounts on both mobiles.. one client for each service.

Today I went a step further, cutting the link From online.no to Gmail, but retaining the link from Gmail To online.no.. not sure what affect that will have on spam levels, which were terrible a few years back. We'll have to see ;)

What it means is that my Norwegian account is once again 'private'.

Had a hell of a job stopping the Samsung email client's notification squawk every time mail arrived. Eventually I found it was a matter of right clicking the account name and there lay yet another group of settings.. so peace has been returned :)

Decisions, decisions.. and Google Drive

Came across an article linked on Google+ about Cloud storage, and how perhaps one should be rather more concerned that the T's & C's one accepts for most of these services refer to US jurisdiction, should one have something stored there which the US finds objectionable. Now the author of the article definitely did not like that thought, and I must admit to that being my worst nightmare, not that i have any actual reason to worry.

It made me think. Then I thought some more, slept on it, and wonder how on earth I got sucked into these services in the first place..?

Dropbox was the one which gave me a clear benefit when running Apple, Windows, Linux, and Mobile devices. It still does, but I don't use Windows very often, Ubuntu runs on my iMac, and I have lots of space on my two iMacs, besides half a dozen WD drives rotating regularly.

So, I'm going to change a few things round here, starting with separation of my Gmail and Online.no accounts., running Online.no on the GS2 and iPhone clients, and Gmail on its own clients.

What I do with Box, Google Drive, Evernote and Dropbox I'll leave for a bit more thought..