I’ve been using imap for my email for few years now. I can’t think of ever going back to pop based email. One issue I’ve had in the back of my mind for a while is backups. Just found this link which looks like a good solution (since I use thunderbird):

http://gemal.dk/blog/2004/02/19/backup_your_imap_mail/

In the Unix world, I’m used to using a utility called “du” to see how much space each directory uses. While looking for a windows version I came across this little gem: SC-DiskInfo - Analyse disk space usage

It gives you a very nice breakdown of subdirectory disk usage with nice graphs for instant visual feedback.

A while back I settled on jfax as a service to get faxes. It’s free and it works. The main problem was that they want you to download their own viewer to view the faxes. The faxes are attached as .jfx files. After a little research I found that these are plain .tif files, and you can just rename the file from something.jfx to something.tif and then use any file viewer that supports tifs.

Hope this helps someone.