Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/VacationAndMailingLists Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/VacationAndMailingLists?atomcommentsDWiki2016-12-27T08:47:32ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/VacationAndMailingLists.By Aristotle Pagaltzis on /blog/sysadmin/VacationAndMailingListstag:CSpace:blog/sysadmin/VacationAndMailingLists:69fb41cc16e08eca7515db156bdf4df6d410205aAristotle Pagaltzishttp://plasmasturm.org/<div class="wikitext"><p>Maybe you want to buffer up mail from each list until a threshold, and then deliver that batch to your inbox all at once? (Something far away from daunting – maybe a dozen messages at a time, maybe 20, maybe more depending on your reading habits… whatever still feels quick to take care of.)</p>
</div>2016-12-27T08:47:32ZBy DrScriptt on /blog/sysadmin/VacationAndMailingListstag:CSpace:blog/sysadmin/VacationAndMailingLists:ba9333ab691dcbe04e5f01a3ac6de191a8d9dcf0DrScriptthttps://dotfiles.tnetconsulting.net/home.html<div class="wikitext"><p>I have all my mailing lists filtered via procmail recipes go to to .maildir/.Mail\ Lists.<Mail\ List\ Name>/. I do similar with email from my RSS2EMAIL gateway.</p>
<p>That way I can simply minimize the Mail Lists / RSS folders and (mostly) ignore them until I'm ready to slog through them. - I am also free to only partially slog through them and leave the rest for a future slogging. ;-)</p>
<p>If a particular mailing list (et al) is important enough to not be ignored for weeks on end, I leave it in my inbox, where it will annoy me until I act on it. (Yes, I'm one of the people that strives for Inbox (near) Zero.)</p>
</div>2016-12-24T19:32:07ZBy James on /blog/sysadmin/VacationAndMailingListstag:CSpace:blog/sysadmin/VacationAndMailingLists:f1d339b4820a84585d7a19e46e9f286a5e7c19eaJames<div class="wikitext"><p>I believe the optimal way of using Gmane is to be subscribed but with mail delivery disabled.</p>
<p>I am a bit surprised you don't file mailing lists away automatically, that was one of the first things I did with procmail ... which was nearly 17 years ago now. At work everything comes into my inbox (I use Thunderbir and Mac Outlook) (originally because Exchange 2007 didn't do server-side filtering, now we're on Exchange 2013 which does, but I just haven't bothered) but living in Australia most mailing list activity occurs overnight, so I generally just select them all and file away, going back later when I have time.</p>
<p>How much personal email do you get to your work address? I've got them pretty well separated fortunately.</p>
<p>Really the biggest time-waste when I got through my email in morning is too many low-entropy automated emails. Each one seems like a good idea but they have multiplied over the years and are becoming a significant timesuck.</p>
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