[Sderby] Email organisation

[Alan Dunford]

On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 12:48 am, thegoths wrote:
> 10,00 sent!!!
>
> Time for a sort out surely. :)
>
> At 21:49 22/10/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >Hi Guys
> >
> >Sorry for kinda off list question, but how does everyone organise
> > their email?
> >

A bit late for this but might be still of interest.  Using K-mail I have 
a few filters set up for incoming mail.  The first of these strips out 
the Spam (well about 95% I suppose) using SpamAssassin and puts it into 
a Spam file, which is deleted from time to time.  For someone using a 
dial up service, this might be better  replaced with a routine which 
would take spam from the Pop server and avoid the download.  I think 
that Mailfilter does this but have not used it myself.

After this I have five other filters set up to sort out the mailing list 
stuff (including for this one) and this is put into the appropriate 
mailing list file, to be read later.

The rest stays for a while in my inbox but any stuff which is suspect 
Spam is put  manually into a Spam_possibly file which is being built up 
to teach SpamAssassin what it should catch in future.

I have files set up for all mail to and from my regular correspondents  
and incoming and outgoing mail is manually put in these.  There are 
other files on Jokes, Purchases and so on.  From time to time these and 
the mailing lists are weeded and out of date stuff thrown away.  Some 
mailing list stuff is never read as, for example, the volumes on the 
Mandrake Newbie list are getting large and only a small amount is 
relevant to me.

As part of my general backup routine, my e-mail files are backed up 
about once a week so I can get back stuff deleted in error but that 
does not happen very often.

Admittedly, there is a bit of manual intervention in my system but, 
then, perhaps I have more time available than many others.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Alan


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