Hello Nilesh,
Nilesh Patra dijo [Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 11:07:07AM +0530]:
> I have used my primary email address with folder hooks to sort out mails
> according to mailing lists/subjects, using folder hooks and read those folders
> every once in a while (depending on how involved I am with each ML/team)
> However, despite that I am seeing quite a bit of debian stuff in
> my inbox (sometimes there is an insane amount of noise there)
> and it distracts me when I want to be doing something else, and end up reading
> thread after thread which I _should_ save for later.
> (Yeah, maybe you can blame me for it :))
>
> So, two questions:-
> - - Do you use your primary email address for debian stuff as well,
> or is it a different one?
> - - Do you have any sensible way to cope up with so many mails from
> different mailing lists and not potentially miss out on something important?
I have several mail addresses (the main ones are gwolf@gwolf.org,
gwolf@debian.org, gwolf@iiec.unam.mx, sistop@gwolf.org), but they are
all forwarded to the first one. I have a set of Procmail filters¹
sorting my mails into different folders (I currently have 133
folders).
¹ I know I should be moving away from procmail,
https://www.enricozini.org/blog/2022/debian/migrating-from-procmail-to-sieve/
I do sort my mail according to destination mail address; my work mail
(@iiec.unam.mx) has a set of sub-folders, as well as my teaching one
(sistop@).
A long time ago, and for various purposes (mainly detecting where I
got from to spam databases, but also for organizing information) I use
the '+' local addition (so that I can ask things about a given project
to be sent to gwolf+project@gwolf.org); I noticed many sites dislike
'+' as part of a mail address, so I configured postfix with:
recipient_delimiter = +.
so I can also use the less "controversial" gwolf.otherstuff@gwolf.org.
Other than that... well, I used mutt-ng until "regular" mutt got a
sidebar showing mailboxes and read/unread counts (attaching a
screenshot... Odd thing to do here! ☻
My setup might be far from beautiful, but I've grown very used to it
:-)
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