On 08/01/2013 06:46 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> > wrote: >> >> Either your inbox gets flooded or, if you read online, you have >> to click back 5-6 pages every day to find any threads you've >> posted on. It gets very tedious. > That's why I get my email feed with a Gmail account. Gmail offers free POP > access, and I pick it up with Thunderbird. That way, my inbox is nothing but > FFL. I set the retention policy on the Inbox to 120 days to limit how much > drive space it takes up. Because all the traffic resides on my PC, sorting > and searching is lightning fast (helps a lot that it's a solid state drive > instead of a disk drive). When I want to respond to something, I click the > "Reply via web post" link at the bottom of every post, and it opens up a > reply page in my default browser, which is always logged into my Yahoo > account (which is subscribed with the no email option). The few other sites > that send email to that Gmail address are automatically filtered off into a > separate folder.
The great thing about using an email client like Thunderbird is that you can have all kinds of different filters and ways to look at an email folder like the one I put the FFL emails in. The retention policy for my FFL folder is 10 days. I have a filter that catches any messages that Bhairitu and copies them to a sub folder. Most of the time I read the group in date mode organized by threads. One click and I can see them as a list of single messages by date order. Then there are other fliters that allow for looking at email for 2 days back, 5 days back or all 10 days. And of course there are search filters on the messages etc. With all those tools available one can make quick work of reading about any email group. Comparatively reading FFL on the web site is pretty clunky.
