Hi; I have had to be absent from my computer and email for a month. When I opened evolution today I had close to 2,000 emails. I know many of the people on this list get that many in a morning, but it is a huge amount to me.
Perhaps some of you heavy users could take a few moments to give me and other SOHO users some tips and describe the tricks you use to get through a large amount of mail (using evo of course). I have spent 30 to 45 minutes vetting just my personal emails and commercial spam. At that rate it is going to take me 8 hours to go through everything else. Most of the 1,700 email that is left is from mailing lists. I have set up vFolders and filters for each of these lists and have set them to thread mode. I have been flagging my mail as read/unread, keeping it for a few weeks or so in its vFolder and then archiving those I want to keep. Is there a way to flag just the parent email and have all child mail automatically flagged as well. Same with 'mark for follow up' or 'labeling'. Do I have to create a script bound to an accelerator key to do this? If so how do I get started? Do I use a BASH script? Can I start with all the thread trees in the message list closed so that I can only see and work with the parent? Or, are there any other suggestions or better ways of doing the vetting quickly? In frustration I have been thinking of deleting everything -- but that is not what I really want. Regards Bill _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
