Re: How do you manage debian mails on your mailbox?
Hello Nilesh, Nilesh Patra dijo [Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 11:07:07AM +0530]: > I have used my primary email address with folder hooks to sort out mails > according to mailing lists/subjects, using folder hooks and read those folders > every once in a while (depending on how involved I am with each ML/team) > However, despite that I am seeing quite a bit of debian stuff in > my inbox (sometimes there is an insane amount of noise there) > and it distracts me when I want to be doing something else, and end up reading > thread after thread which I _should_ save for later. > (Yeah, maybe you can blame me for it :)) > > So, two questions:- > - - Do you use your primary email address for debian stuff as well, > or is it a different one? > - - Do you have any sensible way to cope up with so many mails from > different mailing lists and not potentially miss out on something important? I have several mail addresses (the main ones are gw...@gwolf.org, gw...@debian.org, gw...@iiec.unam.mx, sis...@gwolf.org), but they are all forwarded to the first one. I have a set of Procmail filters¹ sorting my mails into different folders (I currently have 133 folders). ¹ I know I should be moving away from procmail, https://www.enricozini.org/blog/2022/debian/migrating-from-procmail-to-sieve/ I do sort my mail according to destination mail address; my work mail (@iiec.unam.mx) has a set of sub-folders, as well as my teaching one (sistop@). A long time ago, and for various purposes (mainly detecting where I got from to spam databases, but also for organizing information) I use the '+' local addition (so that I can ask things about a given project to be sent to gwolf+proj...@gwolf.org); I noticed many sites dislike '+' as part of a mail address, so I configured postfix with: recipient_delimiter = +. so I can also use the less "controversial" gwolf.otherst...@gwolf.org. Other than that... well, I used mutt-ng until "regular" mutt got a sidebar showing mailboxes and read/unread counts (attaching a screenshot... Odd thing to do here! ☻ My setup might be far from beautiful, but I've grown very used to it :-)
Re: How do you manage debian mails on your mailbox?
On zondag 28 augustus 2022 07:37:07 CEST Nilesh Patra wrote: > So, two questions:- > - - Do you use your primary email address for debian stuff as well, > or is it a different one? I use a different one for debian stuff. I have another account for personal stuff and I do use email aliases quite a bit on that one after one of my aliases ended up in a security breach, so that one receives lots of spam. Now each recipient gets its own alias so when that alias gets misused, it's easy to block and it would also clearly identify the culprit. > - - Do you have any sensible way to cope up with so many mails from > different mailing lists and not potentially miss out on something important? I use Sieve filters where the most used filter is on mailing-list-id which then gets moved into its own folder. This is similar as to what others have suggested, but with Sieve filters the sorting gets done on the server side and therefor works regardless which client I use. With my current mail provider I can modify those filters locally, which also makes it easy to make a local copy/backup. My previous mail provider only had a clunky web UI with no way to export/backup those rules. HTH signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: How do you manage debian mails on your mailbox?
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 11:07:07AM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > I have used my primary email address with folder hooks to sort out mails > according to mailing lists/subjects, using folder hooks and read those folders > every once in a while (depending on how involved I am with each ML/team) That's what I do (a single address, procmail rules to put every ML into its own folder and also sort certain emails into several other folders). > - - Do you have any sensible way to cope up with so many mails from > different mailing lists and not potentially miss out on something important? I skim through all subjects in ML folders, so if that's enough to know which emails are important I shouldn't skip them. And non-ML stuff is stored separately. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature
