On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:03:23PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:57:10AM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > > I used to use Gnus which is a newsreader at heart. Therefore the method > > to organize mail in folders ("groups" in Gnus-speak) was different from > > what I think I need with Mutt. > > > > I'd like to get some ideas from you how you organize your mail. > > Thank you for all your suggestions how I might achieve the old behavior > with Mutt that I had with Gnus. They are very useful. But it's not > what I was looking for, that would be continuing war^H^H^HGnus with > other means. > > What I'm looking for is some suggestions on how else I might organize my > mail, that fits more with what Mutt offers. I think most of you face > the same basic situation as I do: > > - Receive personal mail and mailing list mail. > > - 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). > > - Want to archive a large portion of mail. > > - Want to have an overview of messages that still need action of some > type. > > - Don't want the archive to interfere (too much) with this overview. > > Right? So what do you do? > My approach is basically as follows:-
Incoming mail is sorted into mailboxes corresponding to mailing lists, personal mail and one or two other places. I use the mailboxes command in my muttrc to get mutt to flag incoming mail, with the more important mailboxes earlier in the list. I have to admit that I delete most incoming mail. Messages that I want to keep I save in a separate hierarchy from the incoming mail which can be archived etc. as required. -- Chris Green