Originally Posted by
GadgetFreak
I am so tired of emails. I seem buried in them, and I know I am far from alone.
I had to take a week off one day, and write a large number of filters. This was server-side, which may not work for everyone, but the one time investment with minimal upkeep was worth it. Since it's server side, the email client used matters less, other than be sure it can get into any folders you need it to. Some client/server combinations can only get to the main inbox. I had been burned in the past by client side email filtering on a low speed link -- it would pull down the email, filter it, and put it back. Took too long.
If you've ever read "Dune" by Frank Hebert, he wrote a calming stanza for some of the characters in the book. A few years ago I took liberties and rewrote it:
Do not read Email
Email is the Time-killer
Email is the little-death that sucks away the day
I will sieve my email
I will permit it to pass over my inbox and into folders
And when it has gone past, I will do real work
When email is gone, there will be nothing
Only spam will remain
- After the Bene Gesserit Litany against fear
(Above: read sieve as 'filter'. Sieve is the name of an instance of email filtering. The original can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_G...y_against_fear)