From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ablacktshirt@gmail.com (Yubin Ruan) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 22:33:11 +0800 Subject: Efficient management of emails In-Reply-To: <20180115134107.GA26707@HP> References: <20180115134107.GA26707@HP> Message-ID: <20180115143311.GB28308@HP> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:41:08PM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 06:04:54PM +0530, Shyam Saini wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I have subscribed multiple mailing lists. > > > > My question is how do kernel developers and other users manage their > > emails on daily basis > > considering the fact that we receive hundreds of mails everyday. > > > > One way is to tag each mails with their name for example "NetDev". > > > > I'm curious is their any other way? > > > > I would one really appreciate if someone will share their experience > > and use case. > > Gmail allows you to filter emails and place them into corresponding mailbox. > For example, you can filter email by the "list" field and then tag them. For > emails sent to linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org, I tag them with the tag > "linux-kernel", and then Gmail will automatically create a folder (mailbox) > called "linux-kernel" and places all emails from that mailing list there. When > creating filter, you can also choose to remove those emails from INBOX so that > they will not appear in two mailbox. In this way, all mails from all mailing > list get sorted into different mailbox, making things clean. > > And then I download them using offlineimap, and use mutt to view them. BTW, there is a dedicated doc in the kernel's documentation: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.11/process/email-clients.html And if you want something easy to use without having to configure/tweak, maybe you should give Thunderbird a try. Yubin