Re: Efficient management of emails

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:41:08PM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 06:04:54PM +0530, Shyam Saini wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > 
> > I have subscribed multiple mailing lists.
> > 
> > My question is  how do kernel developers and other users manage their
> > emails on daily basis
> > considering the fact that we receive hundreds of mails everyday.
> > 
> > One way is to tag each mails with their name for example "NetDev".
> > 
> > I'm curious is their any other way?
> > 
> > I would one really appreciate if someone will share their experience
> > and use case.
> 
> Gmail allows you to filter emails and place them into corresponding mailbox.
> For example, you can filter email by the "list" field and then tag them. For
> emails sent to linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, I tag them with the tag
> "linux-kernel", and then Gmail will automatically create a folder (mailbox)
> called "linux-kernel" and places all emails from that mailing list there. When
> creating filter, you can also choose to remove those emails from INBOX so that
> they will not appear in two mailbox. In this way, all mails from all mailing
> list get sorted into different mailbox, making things clean.
> 
> And then I download them using offlineimap, and use mutt to view them.

BTW, there is a dedicated doc in the kernel's documentation:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.11/process/email-clients.html

And if you want something easy to use without having to configure/tweak, maybe
you should give Thunderbird a try.

        Yubin

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