On 23/06/17 05:05 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
Ah. I perceive, Watson, that you amalgamate all your main into one 'folder'.
No, but I do have all the opensuse mailinglists I subscribe to going to one folder.
Are you using the Gmail web interface? I'm presuming that "into one folder" is done vi a filter. I do have a gmail account but I read it via Thunderbird/IMAP, so, once again, I only see the headers and I can apply all the power of Thunderbird to do sophisticated filters and tagging. My experience with web based interfaces is that they are unmitigated crap. My experience with 'phone based mail interfaces is that the small screen makes mail processing awkward and the UI is pretty crippled. Whether that 'crippled' is because the designers lack imagination, are to hung up on the graphics, or system they are working within is too limiting, I neither know not care. It sucks.
I don't routinely count them, but it seems like well over 100 emails a day from all of those.
Just so.
If I ignore that pile for a couple days, it is simply too big to get through in any detail and thus I'm sure I miss relevant emails on threads for which I'm participating.
With GMail and other crippled UIs, I can well imagine that is the case. I can manage up to 5 days away from reading this and 5 other other opensuse lists that come to this account with no problems the way I have Thunderbird set up. Five days? Well that's the longest I've been away for a while. Its possible the setup can handle more.
The "reply-all" button is a tried and true solution that allows filtering based on thread participation.
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