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 :-)
