On 3/05/13 9:07 PM, James Harper wrote:
Hi all,
I am getting overwhelmed by mail.. As a club comitee member, a newsletter editor,parent of kids etc. I am getting sh**loads of mails I have problems to process and..
to find things!
Probably not appropriate for a Linux list, but I use Exchange/outlook for my work email, and the search features are awesome. I can find pretty much anything in my 4GB mailbox in seconds. I get the same results on gmail. :)
Unfortunately I don't know of a way to assign arbitrary tags to an email, although you can assign one or more categories and search on those too. Alternatively you can edit the received email and add tags to the subject or something, as long as you can do it in such a way that it's obvious you added them. Outlook threading is pretty poor as is though, and this might muck it up more. I can assign labels, most of which I do automatically with filters. :)
I automatically sort the various mailing lists into their appropriate folder (and delete mostly after I've read it - it's all archived online anyway) but everything else goes into the inbox and I just search when I need something. I used to sort my inbox into folders, but the idea that an email belongs in one and only one folder is flawed. I do flag email I need to come back to though. I let the mail build up on the server, just set threads to read if they're not of interest.
But at the end of the day, short of outright deleting email you know you won't ever have time to do anything with, no amount of clever sorting and searching is going to help you work through the important emails in any way that is significantly faster. Get yourself a PA :) :D
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