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Xavier Maillard | 17 Apr 20:12
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POLL: how do you sort your inbox ?

Hi,

This is a basic question, but I am used to rmail and until now, I tried as much
as possible to keep every mail into my inbox (unique file).

With mh, things change and I am facing a dilemna: how to sort my mails.

How do you do ? Do you make separation between lists -i.e. you create a MH
folder for each mailing list - and other mails ? What is supposed to work best ?
If I separate my mails, how will I be informed of any new mail(s) into my MH
folders ?

In fact, I am subscribed to several mailing lists (a dozen I think) and I fear I
will miss mails as time passes.

So any help and tips would be greatly appreciated here.

Thank you very much.

Xavier

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Pete Phillips | 17 Apr 23:27
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Re: POLL: how do you sort your inbox ?

Hi Xavier
>>>>> "Xavier" == Xavier Maillard <xma <at> gnu.org> writes:

    Xavier> Hi,

    Xavier> This is a basic question, but I am used to rmail and until
    Xavier> now, I tried as much as possible to keep every mail into my
    Xavier> inbox (unique file).

Oohhhh - bad practice. You should be able to empty your inbox once a
day.

    Xavier> With mh, things change and I am facing a dilemna: how to
    Xavier> sort my mails.

    Xavier> How do you do ? Do you make separation between lists
    Xavier> -i.e. you create a MH folder for each mailing list - and
    Xavier> other mails ? What is supposed to work best ?  If I separate
    Xavier> my mails, how will I be informed of any new mail(s) into my
    Xavier> MH folders ?

    Xavier> In fact, I am subscribed to several mailing lists (a dozen I
    Xavier> think) and I fear I will miss mails as time passes.

I get all the mails I want to actually read funneled into +inbox by
procmail.

I also have a number of folders:

  +mail-lists/mhe
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Greg Minshall | 18 Apr 05:33
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Xavier,

there is an appendix in the manual on dealing with mailing lists.

i don't do it that way, but what i do (described next) is kludgy, at
best.

i used fetchmail to fetch my mail from a pop3 server.  fetchmail invokes
procmail, which then puts messages in the various mail list-specific
folders and inbox.  since i use fetchmail in daemon mode, i then need to
wait for the speedbar to catch up, and then Fv (or click on speedbar) to
folders that have new mail, or Fv to inbox, on the assumption it's got
what i'd most like to see.

fwiw.

Greg

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Peter S Galbraith | 18 Apr 15:59
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Xavier Maillard <xma <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is a basic question, but I am used to rmail and until now, I
> tried as much as possible to keep every mail into my inbox (unique
> file).
> 
> With mh, things change and I am facing a dilemna: how to sort my
> mails.
> 
> How do you do ? Do you make separation between lists -i.e. you create
> a MH folder for each mailing list - and other mails ? What is supposed
> to work best ?  If I separate my mails, how will I be informed of any
> new mail(s) into my MH folders ?
> 
> In fact, I am subscribed to several mailing lists (a dozen I think)
> and I fear I will miss mails as time passes.

What I do is documented in the manual:

 http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/manual/html/Incorporating-Mail.html#index-_0040file_007b_002eprocmailrc_007d-286

: You can use the mh-inc-spool-list variable to direct MH-E to retrieve
: mail from arbitrary spool files other than your system mailbox, file it
: in folders other than your +inbox, and assign key bindings to
: incorporate this mail.
: 
: Suppose you are subscribed to the mh-e-devel mailing list and you use
: procmail to filter this mail into ~/mail/mh-e with the following recipe
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Mike Kupfer | 24 Apr 20:36
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>>>>> "Xavier" == Xavier Maillard <xma <at> gnu.org> writes:

Xavier> Do you make separation between lists -i.e. you create a MH
Xavier> folder for each mailing list - and other mails ?

I get enough mail that I use gnus for initial reading of most mailing
lists.  gnus knows how to handle MH mail folders, and it lets me score
emails according to a variety of factors (sender, keywords, date, etc).
Messages read that way either go back into +inbox for further work,
filed in a different folder (e.g., for archiving), or deleted.  I don't
try to read every email that I get.

I don't create a separate MH folder for each list that I'm on,
particularly at work.  Rather, all the lists related to my specific
project go into one folder, most of the remaining work-related lists go
into a second folder, and a third folder collects the other lists.  

The reasons for splitting the work-related lists is that the scoring
rules are different.  For example, I work with both Solaris and
Mercurial.  So the folder that gets all the Solaris mail includes a
score rule to give priority to emails that mention Mercurial, but it
doesn't contain any rules about Solaris.  The folder that gets the
Mercurial traffic contains a rule to give priority to emails that
mention Solaris, but it doesn't contain rules about Mercurial.

At work I use slocal to distribute incoming mail.

At home I use a filtering script that is tied to mh-inc-folder-hook.

Xavier> In fact, I am subscribed to several mailing lists (a dozen I
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