Re: How to organize mail in folders?
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:19:42PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> The above strategy is a pretty good description of what I actually do.
I wish I was that organized. It's difficult for me to muster the
self-discipline to actually do this.
> 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.
Yes, that seems like a good extension. And easy enough to do.
> Which parts of the above would you automate?
Michelle pointed out archivemail. This way, I could have an "active"
folder per project, then automatically move messages to a corresponding
"archive" folder.
I guess the mbox feature (automatically move read messages from spool
file/folder to mbox on exit of spool folder) could be used to put them
into the todo folder. Not sure whether that would be workable.
Does anyone have experiences?
> 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.
Suppose that I only have a global inbox and a global todo folder (aside
from the mailing lists). Then I could tell Mutt to always remember
message ids of refoldered messages together with their target folder.
Then "archive by project" could look in the References header whether
one of the message ids there is known, then automatically file to the
correct folder.
Kai