> A lot of these are automated alerts for systems I don't manage, and so get rule-filed into the trash. So what's the problem? If I'm counting all automated al

> A lot of these are automated alerts for systems I don't manage, and so get rule-filed into the trash. So what's the problem? If I'm counting all automated alerts and notifications, reminders from bugtracker, VCS and CI, mailing lists and not that important stuff that happens to have my email in CC — there's probably much more than 100 emails per day. You know what? It doesn't really bother me. Thunderbird has filters for that. Since I have figured out what do I care about, my inbox is almost empty: all stuff gets sorted out by folders automatically, most of it marked as read immediately and most likely I won't even see it if something really unexpected doesn't happen; for another 50-80 I will read titles and occasionally skim through some of them if I feel like that, just to keep myself updated. I've got 10 emails left in my inbox to be sorted manually on the quiet day, only 3 of them turn out to be something important and will stay in the inbox for a while. So, with the help of filters and 20 specialized folders in the end of the day I'm left feeling almost lonely and longing for human communication. All that email isn't really noise for me, as it doesn't distract me from anything.