Am Donnerstag, den 13.06.2013, 18:22 +0400 schrieb Emre Erenoglu: > >Jun 13, 2013; 5:13am — by Thomas Mittelstaedt > > > >Why don't you use filters to filter your many emails in your huge INBOX, > >assigning tags (labels) to them, moving them into different folders and > >so on. > >You find that under Edit->message Filters in the main menu. > > Thanks Thomas for your proposal as well. Indeed, this type of working > is suitable for many people and some of my team are doing like this. > However, each deal with let's say around 10-20 proposals a year. > > As of now, we've already made 100+ proposals, it will easily exceed > 200+ by end of the year. One of them that we are about to sign a > contract has 942 messages including the ones in my archive. Making > ~200+ folders per year is not sustainable and categorizing mails into > folders also take time if filters don't work (not everybody make a > proper subject line unfortunately). > > That's why I've chosen not to use folders at all and I depend solely > on filter/search as I need it through the a daywork. It served me well
Well, at least, move them out of the INBOX folder. I had some trouble in the past with mails in those special folders like INBOX, OUTBOX, DRAFTS. If you don't want to organize your mail into many folders, use labels, as I mentioned in my last post. And you can organize the filters in a cascading way until they are moved somewhere. That means you can set a label <tag_a> based on one criteria in filter <A> and build a filter <B> that uses <tag_a> as the criterion to assign another label or not. And then you can build search folders, based on the results of that filtering! Pretty powerful. Just play around with it a little before punting. (And by the way, if you know how to work with an sqlite database, you can inspect the mail databases folders.db directly.) -- thomas _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
