Handling lots of email is definitelly not an easy task. I tried lots of
techniques and lots of technique and lots of mailers. I curently stick to
mutt (yep, I tried xfmail).
Some basics of what I do:
- I use rbl (real time blacklist) in sendmail to filter out spam
- I use mh style boxes b-cause it is more efficient (I think) in handling
thousnads of email mailboxes
- I receive all lists email in two folders (procmail):
- folder a: low trafic, high interest
- folder b: high trafic, lower interest (organised per month)
Yes, all lists are mixed (basically because I did not found how mutt know
in which mh boxes there are new mails), but this is not a problem.
- I receive other emails in my inbox (all mixed)
- I leave all email requiring action (or from which I really do expect a
reply) in my inbox (which I keep < 30-40 emails). my mutt terminal is
160x60
- I configured mutt to archive email in a 'smart' way based on pattern
matching
- store emails about topics I am concerned about in their specialised
mailboxes (for archiving only). It is important not to mix them with
regular archive and to use automated pattern matching to systematically
use the same location to archive related topics emails.
fcc-save-hook "(~s netgames|~s NG)" +netgames/Archive-`date +%Y`
save-hook '~t [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~s liberetto' +Lists/Liberetto
- archive other email in a monthly archive
set record=+Archive-`date +%Y-%m`
does it fine
- I use color to highlight emails from people I really care
- I use macros to read filter (limit) my inbox by priority (first email
addressed to me and not from daemons)
Well, that's about all that is important and which I can remember.
I by no way plan to quit mutt.
I did not consider mutt earlier (than few months ago), because it's text
base, you know we are in gui now (well, I know prefer text based email such
as mutt because it is just too powerful - you can plug so many viewers and
stuff (eg: msword's catdoc, rtfreader, vcardreader,...). I gave a try to
mutt after doing a grep|wc on debian's list and discovering about halp of the
posters were using it.
I used Sven Guckes configuration to do mine.
His is available at:
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/mutt/muttrc
It took me two days (evenings) to setup mutt (because I tuned it a lot), but
it is really worth it.
Bernard
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 15:11 +0200, Peter Schuller wrote:
> How do mutters (you :) handle this? The "lists" command doesn't seem to be very
> helpful. I know I can use procmail to deliver mail to different (Maildir)
> folders, but I won't have any "overview" of where there are new messages to be
> read.
>
> Anyone? I'd very much like to switch to mutt, but how do you manage around 300
> mails per day?
>
> Thanks!
>
> / Peter Schuller
