On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yeah, gmail is broken that way. I hope they fix it soon.
>
> It's even more annoying when the email is _addressed_ to you and the
> first email you get comes from a list so the server filter labels and
> archives it, and then discarded every other copy you get.
>
> So it never ends up in your inbox.
You're doing it wrong.
Here's what I do:
- I have a rule for lkml, but it doesn't archive it, it just adds the
lkml label
- I have *another* rule for archiving mailing lists, but it has a
"!to:me" in it
what that results in is that only emails that are purely to the
mailing list (or other people) get archived, but if you get personally
cc'd it will show up in your mailbox. And this is why labels are so
much better than folders.
And the nice thing is that if there was a long discussion about
things, and you get cc'd in the middle, you'll see the email you got
cc'd on *and* everything that led up to it, so you get the context.
So no, gmail isn't broken. Not in this area. This is, in fact, the
main reason I switched entirely to gmail, because the filtering is so
convenient, and works so right (there are other ones that get this
right too, of course).
Now, gmail is broken in other ways. In particular, the web client
actually does ok (I use it for pretty much everything except for
handling the bulk mailing from Andrew), but you cannot do an inline
patch without whitespace getting screwed up. I've suggested a "attach
inline" option to the file attachment popup (that really would be
lovely), but no luck.
Linus
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