I have several businesses and therefore several business email accounts
along with a couple of personal email accounts. And a few of those
accounts have quite a few folders and a lot of rules that keep inbound
mail under control by routing it to different folders. All of this is
great when it comes to keeping a massive amount of email organized.
However, when I need to quickly review all recent email received, it's a
nightmare. I have to go on a search mission looking at every folder to
see if it has something new. I know folders can indicate unread mail.
But I often keep mail marked as unread if I have to follow up on it. So
I can't always just look at folders with 'unread' mail for the new
stuff. I came up with a solution to resend all inbound mail from all
of my accounts to a separate 'composite' email account. The whole
purpose of that account is to have a funnel to a single folder where I
get a quick glance at all recent mail to all of my accounts and all of
my folders in one list. The downside of this is additional processing
resending all mail a 2nd time to my composite account. And if I need to
reply, I have to find that email in the real account in order to 'reply'
from the correct account.
Gmail has some sort of 'combined' folder that basically contains 'soft
links' to mail that resides in other folders. I figure this is
non-trivial to implement. But I'm just curious if there has been any
thought to providing something like this. In my case it would be even
better if it could span folders across several email accounts. But I
suspect that doing cross-account would introduce too many security
issues. I'd settle for a single composite folder per account with mail
from all subscribed folders within that account. Not duplicates of the
emails in the composite folder. Just soft links.
I don't have any implementation project going for this. At this point
I'm just curious if it's ever been talked about or thought about. Just
blue-skying and adding an item to my wish list.
Jerry
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