Comments on: Restructure of my email system http://www.theninelives.com/restructure-of-my-email-system Personal Web Site of Ian Cheung, Information Architect/Web Designer in Osaka, Japan Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:45:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ian Cheung http://www.theninelives.com/restructure-of-my-email-system/comment-page-1#comment-796 Ian Cheung Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:29:10 +0000 http://www.theninelives.com/restructure-of-my-email-system#comment-796 Thanks, sounds like you have got your system pretty well figured out. I'm still trying for a pure IMAP system, even though I have a gmail account. I use popfile for spam filtering which beats Thunderbird's hopelessly inadequate spam filter easily. I've forwarded your comment to Rie who also wants to tame her Lotus Notes account at work. Thanks, sounds like you have got your system pretty well figured out. I’m still trying for a pure IMAP system, even though I have a gmail account. I use popfile for spam filtering which beats Thunderbird’s hopelessly inadequate spam filter easily.

I’ve forwarded your comment to Rie who also wants to tame her Lotus Notes account at work.

]]> By: Roy Verrips http://www.theninelives.com/restructure-of-my-email-system/comment-page-1#comment-791 Roy Verrips Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:37:16 +0000 http://www.theninelives.com/restructure-of-my-email-system#comment-791 I went through this excersize about 2 years ago and haven't looked back since! With my office e-mail I received between 50 to 60 per day. Using Lotus Notes gave me a rather powerful search engine to use and I found after a while I only used three folders - Inbox, Filed and Sent. I liked to be able to keep a clean inbox - If I'd read a mail and dealt with it, it went to Filed. Sent maintained itself - If my Inbox had more than 20 messages, I needed to take a morning off and clear it. Lotus Notes had the neat ability to "View All" mails, which is pretty much which lead me to stop using folders 'cause I always used "View All" and searched through that. I tried this with my POP/IMAP mail, For personal, but didn't find a solution 'till Gmail - I now do a two step approach. I have a GMail account, and every 5 minutes download all mails to my IMAP server, from where I read it with various clients using IMAP (mobile phone, Thunderbird on Linux, Thunderbird on Windows, Webmail clients on the server, etc). Initially I did this 'cause gmail had the best SPAM filter, but it also serves as a backup of all my mails, and when I'm really searching for something (can't remember when it was, or who sent it) I simply search through my archives in Gmail - Up to 800MB of mails in there already. The more I use it, the more helpful it's become. Just my 2 cents worth ... Yours Roy I went through this excersize about 2 years ago and haven’t looked back since!

With my office e-mail I received between 50 to 60 per day. Using Lotus Notes gave me a rather powerful search engine to use and I found after a while I only used three folders – Inbox, Filed and Sent. I liked to be able to keep a clean inbox – If I’d read a mail and dealt with it, it went to Filed. Sent maintained itself – If my Inbox had more than 20 messages, I needed to take a morning off and clear it.

Lotus Notes had the neat ability to “View All” mails, which is pretty much which lead me to stop using folders ’cause I always used “View All” and searched through that.

I tried this with my POP/IMAP mail, For personal, but didn’t find a solution ’till Gmail – I now do a two step approach. I have a GMail account, and every 5 minutes download all mails to my IMAP server, from where I read it with various clients using IMAP (mobile phone, Thunderbird on Linux, Thunderbird on Windows, Webmail clients on the server, etc).

Initially I did this ’cause gmail had the best SPAM filter, but it also serves as a backup of all my mails, and when I’m really searching for something (can’t remember when it was, or who sent it) I simply search through my archives in Gmail – Up to 800MB of mails in there already. The more I use it, the more helpful it’s become.

Just my 2 cents worth …

Yours

Roy

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