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I have switched from basically real-time email push correspondence to manual fetch every day or two. Basically, when I feel like it. My mail traffic has dropped

I have switched from basically real-time email push correspondence to manual fetch every day or two. Basically, when I feel like it. My mail traffic has dropped from ~50 to 1 to 2 a day. It's hard to say whether it benefited me or not, but I'm sure of one thing - I don't waste time on email anymore.

my_username_is_ 13y ago
Does anyone know if its possible to hack GMail such that it only updates your inbox at certain times? I've fallen into a habit of checking it more often than I should (on a computer, both work and personal) and it would certainly help me if the inbox just didn't update with new mail continuously.
- YokoZar 13y ago
  You can get 90% of the way there if you turn off gmail notifications on your phone.
- plg 13y ago
  ummm how about only navigating to your gmail page when you want to check mail?
- larrys 13y ago
  "Does anyone know if its possible to hack GMail such that it only updates your inbox at certain times? I've fallen into a habit of checking it more often than I should (on a computer, both work and personal) and it would certainly help me if the inbox just didn't update with new mail continuously." Not by hacking email, but there should be a way to do that using the following. enable imap in gmail (pull email from the gmail box every "x" hours). That email goes into a different box, the one you check whenever you want but it's only updated every "x" hours. So you would quickly realize there is no point in checking that box. Other ways might include setting up a vps that receives the email but delaying the forwarding to gmail until a specified time. So the vps setup email (using sendmail or whatever) simply holds and forwards to gmail every "x" hours. I'd have to think this through but there is definitely a way using various unix tools, smtp, cron, imap to do something like this. (Probably many ways for sure). So in other words you are either grabbing from gmail to another mail host every "x" hours (and then possibly forwarding to another gmail box) or you are sending all mail to another mail host (and then sending it to gmail). If you don't need gmail in particular there are probably a few ways to do this with shell scripting and knowledge of smtp, imap, cron etc.
- mikejchin 13y ago
  Our landing page is a bit silly (it was a hackathon project), but my company made Inbox Pause (http://inboxpause.com http://inboxpause.com), which works by automating the creation and deletion of Gmail filters at scheduled times. If you aren't comfortable with installing an extension on top of Gmail, you can also try it on your own with the same filters manually.

my_username_is_ 13y ago

Does anyone know if its possible to hack GMail such that it only updates your inbox at certain times? I've fallen into a habit of checking it more often than I should (on a computer, both work and personal) and it would certainly help me if the inbox just didn't update with new mail continuously.

YokoZar 13y ago
You can get 90% of the way there if you turn off gmail notifications on your phone.
plg 13y ago
ummm how about only navigating to your gmail page when you want to check mail?
larrys 13y ago
"Does anyone know if its possible to hack GMail such that it only updates your inbox at certain times? I've fallen into a habit of checking it more often than I should (on a computer, both work and personal) and it would certainly help me if the inbox just didn't update with new mail continuously." Not by hacking email, but there should be a way to do that using the following. enable imap in gmail (pull email from the gmail box every "x" hours). That email goes into a different box, the one you check whenever you want but it's only updated every "x" hours. So you would quickly realize there is no point in checking that box. Other ways might include setting up a vps that receives the email but delaying the forwarding to gmail until a specified time. So the vps setup email (using sendmail or whatever) simply holds and forwards to gmail every "x" hours. I'd have to think this through but there is definitely a way using various unix tools, smtp, cron, imap to do something like this. (Probably many ways for sure). So in other words you are either grabbing from gmail to another mail host every "x" hours (and then possibly forwarding to another gmail box) or you are sending all mail to another mail host (and then sending it to gmail). If you don't need gmail in particular there are probably a few ways to do this with shell scripting and knowledge of smtp, imap, cron etc.
mikejchin 13y ago
Our landing page is a bit silly (it was a hackathon project), but my company made Inbox Pause (http://inboxpause.com http://inboxpause.com), which works by automating the creation and deletion of Gmail filters at scheduled times. If you aren't comfortable with installing an extension on top of Gmail, you can also try it on your own with the same filters manually.