Re: How to organize mail in folders?
On 11Jul2007 17:03, Kai Grossjohann <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| - Receive personal mail and mailing list mail.
Tick. Personal email and various announcements land in my "+me" mailbox.
| - Have different strategies for handling mail depending on the address
| they were sent to (some mailing lists are less important than most
| personal mail, so we don't check for new mail there as often).
I have several folders for mailing lists, and several receive multiple
lists. Eg my +unix folder gets a bunch of UNIXy lists. I use the X-Label
header field to show which list a message came from, inserted by the
procmail rule that filed the message.
| - Want to archive a large portion of mail.
Nightly I roll off anything older than 6 months from folder +foo
into +ARCHIVE/foo, for most folders.
| - Want to have an overview of messages that still need action of some
| type.
I flag these ("F"). Limiting the view to flagged messages ("l~F<enter>")
shows just these in the current folder.
| - Don't want the archive to interfere (too much) with this overview.
The nightly roll-off mentioned above - the archive is separate folder.
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Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743
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Me, I'm looking for obituaries. Lately a gratifyingly large number of my
most odious near-contemporaries are achieving their long-deserved quietus.
Not enough, and not always the right ones, but their time will come.
Peeve: I may not live to see them dead.
- Lee Rudolph, rudolph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx