Trane Francks wrote:
On 8/1/13 4:25 PM +0900, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
If the OP is running multiple instances of SM with different user
profiles, it might be nice to have what the phone company calls a
"distinctive ring" so he'd know by the sound which account just got mail.
Yeah, that might be a partial solution, but it still doesn't give me the
information of whether it's just a backup notification or whether a
server has just eaten its motherboard and the client is currently
getting CPR while waiting for me to reply. And then there's the whole
issue of running multiple instances/profiles as a workaround. I've only
got 6GB RAM and already find the system paging out to the swap file
regularly. Running 8 instances of SeaMonkey will quickly suck up RAM in
similar fashion as black holes consume matter.
Growl made this all so simple. A quick glance at the notification bubble
gave me the account name and sender of the incoming mail.
Thanks for a helpful suggestion, though! :)
Oh, well. It sounded like you did have several instances open, judging
by your statement about several desktops.
Another thing you might do when you're focusing on an urgent project is
to disable automatic mail retrieval for unrelated accounts. Then when
you come up for air, do CTRL-SHIFT-D (or the Mac equivalent) to get mail
for all accounts at once (this assumes one instance of SM with all your
accounts under the same profile).
Not sure how your display looks, but on mine, the name of any account
(when collapsed) or folder (when the account is expanded) that contains
unread messages is bolded, and depending on display parameters, may also
show the number of unread messages to the right of the folder name. So I
can see at a glance where the unread messages are and click on the
highest-priority folders first.
Filters really come in handy here. I don't just let all my new mail end
up in the various inboxes. I have nearly a hundred filters that route
them to the right boxes so I can see at a glance (for example) if I have
mail from ABC Corp whose job I'm working on. Like yourself, I get
several hundred messages a day, and I couldn't survive otherwise.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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