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I also do inbox 0 the exact same way you do but sometimes it's not enough. For example, if an online retailer sends me promotions I don't care about, I'd like t

by kin 12y ago

I also do inbox 0 the exact same way you do but sometimes it's not enough. For example, if an online retailer sends me promotions I don't care about, I'd like them to be auto-archived for when I actually feel like buying something, but I don't want to miss my purchase confirmations. Google's new categories help and Inbox sounds promising but I feel like there's too much assumption going on in parsing the emails. Really, I'd like email addresses to be on the domain level. For example, mail@cool_username.gmail.com and flights@cool_username.gmail.com. Then, give me granular control over how "mail" or "flights" get categorized and give me nested categories.

puls 12y ago
Check out plus addressing! Not part of any standard, but supported by Gmail and many other email providers. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-m...
- kin 12y ago
  I've tried plus addressing. Some websites annoyingly don't accept them :(
- sib 12y ago
  The plus sign has been a valid character in email addresses since 1982 (RFC 822). See page 8: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html
nicwolff 12y ago
I filter all messages with the word "unsubscribe" in the body into a "Bulk Mail" folder that I check once a week, works beautifully. As for the per-category addressing, you can add "+flights" to your username when subscribing to flight notifications and then filter on that however you like...
enobrev 12y ago
I've been wanting something similar, but in the form of automated expiration after a certain amount of time (able to set "expiration" to either "Archive" or "Trash" in said rule). For example, I'd love to be able to add a rule so that certain "deal" emails (those to which I'm purposely subscribed) to expire after say 1 day or 1 week - whatever the standard time for the sender's deals to typically last. Then on the occasion that I end up in the woods, whether literally or figuratively, and unable to maintain my email for a couple days, I don't end up with an overwhelming and generally self-perpetuating inbox debt

by kin 12y ago

puls 12y ago

Check out plus addressing! Not part of any standard, but supported by Gmail and many other email providers. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-m...

kin 12y ago
I've tried plus addressing. Some websites annoyingly don't accept them :(
sib 12y ago
The plus sign has been a valid character in email addresses since 1982 (RFC 822). See page 8: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html

nicwolff 12y ago

I filter all messages with the word "unsubscribe" in the body into a "Bulk Mail" folder that I check once a week, works beautifully. As for the per-category addressing, you can add "+flights" to your username when subscribing to flight notifications and then filter on that however you like...

enobrev 12y ago

I've been wanting something similar, but in the form of automated expiration after a certain amount of time (able to set "expiration" to either "Archive" or "Trash" in said rule). For example, I'd love to be able to add a rule so that certain "deal" emails (those to which I'm purposely subscribed) to expire after say 1 day or 1 week - whatever the standard time for the sender's deals to typically last. Then on the occasion that I end up in the woods, whether literally or figuratively, and unable to maintain my email for a couple days, I don't end up with an overwhelming and generally self-perpetuating inbox debt