Hi, I'am looking for tips/ideas on how to best manage subscriptions to multiple high volume mailing lists.
Here's my current setup: I'm subscribed to multiple lists which get seperated into multiple incoming folders by procmail. Every now and then I scan through the new mail for some of the lists. I usually flag threads that I'd like to follow later. I have hooks set up to display messages in the index in different colors if they are from me, new, flagged or old. This helps somewhat but for some lists (e.g. debian-user or linux-kernel) there can be more then 300 messages a day, so it's hard to keep track of interesting threads. In two or three days even flagged messages can get so far down the list that they are hard to find... On the other hand I prefer to keep old messages searchable so every time I have a problem I can look for similar topics before bothering anybody. (On a side note: New messages are colored in a different color in the index fairly easily, but is there a way to color also the top message of each thread if there are new messages in the thread, so that it is visible at one glance even if the treads are collapsed?) Ideally what I thought would be nice to have is: New messages arrive into the incoming folders as before. But in the incoming folder I want to keep only new messages or threads I started/replied to or those I have flagged. So either on closing the folder (changing to a different one) or on opening it every message that is not new or from me or flagged is moved to an archive folder (ideally one that is named dynamically to include the current year and month). Is there a good way to achieve this? (Note, that the best solution would be to always keep the whole thread, but if that's not possible, I guess it would be still very good if I could only keep all messages from me and all flagged messages.) I'd greatly appreciate any thoughts on this matter! Many thanks for your help in advance! best regards, Balazs
