Re: How to organize mail in folders?
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:33:37PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> Michelle,
>
> I think there is a misunderstanding. I wanted to understand how other
> people process their email. You are giving me pointers to programs but
> don't describe how you use them.
>
> Here is a potential strategy for handling mail:
>
> - All incoming mail goes to inbox.
> - I process all mails from inbox.
> - Some messages I read, then delete right away.
> - Other messages I read, then archive by project.
> By project means that there is a folder for each project.
> - Some messages I read, then respond to and archive (by project).
> - Some messages I read, decide that I can't handle them right
> away, so I put them in the todo folder. Every morning I go
> through my todo folder.
> - Some messages (often those sent by me) are waiting for responses
> from others. I file those in the "pending" folder. Every
> morning I go through my "pending" folder to see whether a response
> has arrived.
>
> Some of the above steps could be automated. The strategy does not
> handle mailing lists well. But I hope it shows one possible response
> and makes it clear in what way your response differs from what I was
> expecting.
>
The above strategy is a pretty good description of what I actually do.
The only difference in my case is that I use a procmail lookalike
(it's a perl sript) to sort incoming mail, basically into a mailbox
per mailing list and my main inbox.
Which parts of the above would you automate? I can't really see what
can be automated except, possibly, the "archive by project". My
archive folders don't really correspond to anything that could be
gleaned from the E-Mails (except, in some cases, the sender) so the
ones I save I just save manually.
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Chris Green