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Surprised nobody has mentioned Gmail filters yet. I use Gmail filters for my non-priority tasks. Things that I want to do in groups (like customer service emai

Surprised nobody has mentioned Gmail filters yet. I use Gmail filters for my non-priority tasks. Things that I want to do in groups (like customer service emails) get labeled and archived immediately so I'm not distracted. Gmail Filters are pretty damn powerful-- not sure if they support REGEXs on email subjects, but that'd be pretty amazing. Omnifocus is developing a feature to allow "send to omnifocus" tasks where you can send your tasks to USERNAME@omnifocus.com and it will add them to your inbox. There's tons of potential with this, as it could be extended to assign tasks to specific projects, assign priorities, and set task due dates and gcal integration. Do any email protocols accept XML or JSON? Not sure if that's even possible but I guess you could send a JSON object in the header and write a new client that handles it appropriately...

justncase80 15y ago
One other cool feature gmail has is the ability to let you put alternate email address names that you can then use to easily filter. Like if you go to the bug tool and enter your email address like this: bugs+justin.m.chase@gmail.com Then gmail will know to send that to your address still but you can easily setup gmail rules to process it.
dredmorbius 15y ago
They're nothing that procmail can't do. And they're not a lot of things procmail can do, including revising content, and feeding mail directly into other processes (both for delivery and for action). As with many GUI mail tools, one of the biggest limitations of GMail filters is that you can't reorder them. The priority in which you assign filters is really critical.