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5 Minutes to a better Gmail Inbox
- dredmorbius 14y agoAnd here's why that doesn't scale: mail from the past two days (that I haven't already adjudicated): 358 messages. There's another few hundred I've already dealt with today. Going through those, one at a time, through the GMail interface is simply too slow for words. Yes, much of that is automated systems-generated messages, but I've got to look at 'em. How do I tame the tiger? 1. Filters. Mail is bucketed by category. This ... mostly works. 2. Mutt. For serious email processing, I switch to my mutt session, which runs in screen, with windows open to my high-traffic folders (it's fetched regularly using offlineimap). Using '~l' filtering, grab a slew of related messages. I can down-arrow through them much faster than I can view them in GMail (several messages/second). Tag the lot, and delete or archive. If necessary, forward to relevant party/ies with information, and/or resolve the issue identified by the mails. Rinse, wash, repeat.