On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 09:40 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > Javier Kohen wrote: > > I'm using Evolution 2.10.1 and I'd like to hear the community's view on > > best practices for my current workflow. > > > > In particular, I would like to hear how you keep all your pending e-mail > > at a glance. That is, how you track unread e-mail (this one is easy by > > default), but also e-mail you have read, but still need to act upon. For > > instance, sometimes I need to reply to an e-mail, but I have to wait to > > get some information from a third-party, or I'm waiting for an answer to > > an e-mail and I don't want to forget, or I need to work on a request and > > then get back to the sender. I like to keep these e-mails handy until I > > can fully process them. > > > > I receive e-mail from several e-mail accounts through POP3 and local > > delivery. E-mail is moved to different folders according to mailing list > > and source account; I leave the main inbox for personal e-mail and have > > a subfolder for my corporate e-mail. I don't have any remote folders at > > the time. > > > > I used to mark pending e-mail as unread, but that proved unmanageable > > whenever I had 30 of those and new e-mail arrived. I would accidentally > > mark some as read, or miss _really_ unread incoming e-mail. > > > > Currently, I have created a virtual folder so I can track the e-mail > > that I haven't read and that is pending a response. The folder groups > > unread messages, messages I mark with with the Important tag, those > > marked as "Follow Up" and last those with the "Pending task" label. I > > spend about 95% of the time I use Evolution in that folder, leaving > > aside mail reading and composing, of course. > > > > My current workflow works, but I'm having a problem that makes me > > question this approach. Namely the fact that Evolution allocates several > > hundreds of megabytes for its process. More so if you include EDS. I've > > read that virtual folders could be the origin of the huge memory usage, > > so I'm trying to get rid of them or, at least, avoid having a single > > virtual folder that pulls all the mailboxes. > > > > Looking forward to your input. > > > > > > One of the features I miss from Thunderbird is Tags. The ability to > mark messages in different ways to know what needs to be done. It is > easy looking at my inbox for a message heading that is a different > colour. Also the ability to sort by the tags. > > I have yet to try TB 2 that is supposed to allow multiple tags per message. > > Combine this with individual folders, auto tagging filters and it is > almost heaven.
I started some work on supporting multiple labels per message and the ability to add new labels as well. I couldn't complete the syncing of new flags alone (instead of all the flags) to server, because of some other high-priority work. You will be getting this soon (hopefully in the 2.11.X cycle). > -- Sankar _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
