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I find that for me, it’s the opposite. It’s very fast to scan a Slack channel and only dig into interesting threads. But I get CC’d on endless emails that aren’

I find that for me, it’s the opposite. It’s very fast to scan a Slack channel and only dig into interesting threads. But I get CC’d on endless emails that aren’t meant for me, to the tune of dozens per day. And I don’t have any way to unsubscribe — I can mute a thread or a whole channel in Slack, but there’s no equivalent once I’m CC’d.

hyggetrold 2y ago
Email filters me son.
- ddulaney 2y ago
  OK maybe I don't know how to do this right. I do that for automated systems, but do you filter entire conversations? Like, I'm on some random email thread, and dozens of people are replying. Making a rule feels pretty heavyweight and isn't quick (at least in Outlook).
  - hyggetrold 2y ago
    If I have to, I have to - if it's going to persist for days, I don't want that noise.
Symbiote 2y ago
Thunderbird can do this, although I haven't used it myself. (And I realize not many people use Thunderbird for work.) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ignore-threads https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ignore-threads
- adra 2y ago
  I just installed it today because I was tired of apple mails mandate that I must block remote files 100% if the time (forcing me to click each time I want to see "load remote content") or let every random email I receive and preview have user tracked remote content (or the zero click bad stuff..). Thunderbird is much better at making this a balanced approach that's works well for me!
  - 1over137 2y ago
    MailMate is a great option on macOS.
    - DavideNL 2y ago
      Agree, it’s great. Only disadvantage: no “Dark mode” for email content. Thunderbird has the Dark Reader addon, which is very nice…
vleaflet 2y ago
And there is always at least one person in email chain who puts their signature with company logo, custom fonts and colors to every single reply, making it annoying to try follow the conversation because my email client can't even parse the mess anymore.
llm_trw 2y ago
Sounds like you need an old school email client. May I suggest gnus?
- ddulaney 2y ago
  Unfortunately, emails (at least in my context) are rich text, and they pretty frequently include images that I care about. I don't think gnus can handle that, given that it looks CLI-only. But also, it looks like I'd have to do some substantial elisp work to get filtering, etc. working. This is starting to sound like way more work than hitting Ignore on a Slack thread. Maybe it's great once you get it set up, and assuming nobody sends you rich text where you care about the formatting?
- jhbadger 2y ago
  Many, many places (even academia, not just businesses) only allow Outlook to be used as an email client "for security" these days -- they actually go out of their way to disable POP and IMAP access and even use Microsoft's authentication system to get access. I've been using email for close to 40 years at this point, and I actually did use Emacs as my e-mail client in the 1990s, but that hasn't been possible anywhere I've worked for close to two decades at this point.
  - Symbiote 2y ago
    Thunderbird supports what Microsoft call "Modern Authentication" for MS365. I'm not sure if that's enough, or if the administrator can still block Thunderbird.
crazygringo 2y ago
If you use Gmail, press m to mute a thread. That's the equivalent. It's a godsend, I can't imagine an e-mail client without it.
Brajeshwar 2y ago
Filter all emails CC-ed to you—label them and mark them as read. You can go through them real fast on Fridays if you missed anything that needs your attention, but most do not (they cc-ed you). If you missed one and someone asked why, well, it was not addressed to you directly. I hope this is an acceptable compromise.
sigseg1v 2y ago
For some reason the most annoying discussions I am in are not in channels but in "group direct messages". Lots of them have 5+ people and spam discussions that are completely unrelated to me. There is no leave button. Muting is problematic because they have no topic and in 2 months if the same person wants to message a group of people, it will reuse the same group DM for a different message (eg. one month it's about if we have pictures of dogs to share for the internal blog and the next it's info about something urgent from HR).
- ddulaney 2y ago
  Oh gawd the worst. Where I work was acquired, so there’s a mixture of Slack and Teams. Because Teams threading sucks so much, people there get in the habit of doing everything in group DMs. It’s as bad as emails.

hyggetrold 2y ago

Email filters me son.

ddulaney 2y ago
OK maybe I don't know how to do this right. I do that for automated systems, but do you filter entire conversations? Like, I'm on some random email thread, and dozens of people are replying. Making a rule feels pretty heavyweight and isn't quick (at least in Outlook).
- hyggetrold 2y ago
  If I have to, I have to - if it's going to persist for days, I don't want that noise.

Symbiote 2y ago

Thunderbird can do this, although I haven't used it myself. (And I realize not many people use Thunderbird for work.) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ignore-threads https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ignore-threads

adra 2y ago
I just installed it today because I was tired of apple mails mandate that I must block remote files 100% if the time (forcing me to click each time I want to see "load remote content") or let every random email I receive and preview have user tracked remote content (or the zero click bad stuff..). Thunderbird is much better at making this a balanced approach that's works well for me!
- 1over137 2y ago
  MailMate is a great option on macOS.
  - DavideNL 2y ago
    Agree, it’s great. Only disadvantage: no “Dark mode” for email content. Thunderbird has the Dark Reader addon, which is very nice…

vleaflet 2y ago

And there is always at least one person in email chain who puts their signature with company logo, custom fonts and colors to every single reply, making it annoying to try follow the conversation because my email client can't even parse the mess anymore.

llm_trw 2y ago

Sounds like you need an old school email client. May I suggest gnus?

ddulaney 2y ago
Unfortunately, emails (at least in my context) are rich text, and they pretty frequently include images that I care about. I don't think gnus can handle that, given that it looks CLI-only. But also, it looks like I'd have to do some substantial elisp work to get filtering, etc. working. This is starting to sound like way more work than hitting Ignore on a Slack thread. Maybe it's great once you get it set up, and assuming nobody sends you rich text where you care about the formatting?
jhbadger 2y ago
Many, many places (even academia, not just businesses) only allow Outlook to be used as an email client "for security" these days -- they actually go out of their way to disable POP and IMAP access and even use Microsoft's authentication system to get access. I've been using email for close to 40 years at this point, and I actually did use Emacs as my e-mail client in the 1990s, but that hasn't been possible anywhere I've worked for close to two decades at this point.
- Symbiote 2y ago
  Thunderbird supports what Microsoft call "Modern Authentication" for MS365. I'm not sure if that's enough, or if the administrator can still block Thunderbird.

crazygringo 2y ago

If you use Gmail, press m to mute a thread. That's the equivalent. It's a godsend, I can't imagine an e-mail client without it.

Brajeshwar 2y ago

Filter all emails CC-ed to you—label them and mark them as read. You can go through them real fast on Fridays if you missed anything that needs your attention, but most do not (they cc-ed you). If you missed one and someone asked why, well, it was not addressed to you directly. I hope this is an acceptable compromise.

sigseg1v 2y ago

For some reason the most annoying discussions I am in are not in channels but in "group direct messages". Lots of them have 5+ people and spam discussions that are completely unrelated to me. There is no leave button. Muting is problematic because they have no topic and in 2 months if the same person wants to message a group of people, it will reuse the same group DM for a different message (eg. one month it's about if we have pictures of dogs to share for the internal blog and the next it's info about something urgent from HR).

ddulaney 2y ago
Oh gawd the worst. Where I work was acquired, so there’s a mixture of Slack and Teams. Because Teams threading sucks so much, people there get in the habit of doing everything in group DMs. It’s as bad as emails.