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Originally Posted by JamesHenderson
I basically didn't want to look through too many folders, but still wanted them grouped so I made these "areas" that seem to work for me.
It's entirely possible that I get a lot less email than you, of course  |
If I had to look in folders to see if they had new mails in them, it'd be a disaster ... but both FM's webmail system and Roundcube indicate whether new mails have arrived in folders, so a folder with sudden new mail stands out from a list of many with no new mails.
Having said that, scrolling through lots of folders - which I probably do twice a day just to make sure I've seen all of those that have new mail - is a bit of a pain. But it's still simpler than dealing with a mish-mash all in one of a handful of folders.
I used to use a mail client (no longer maintained) which could be configured to percolate numbers of unread mails in subfolders up to parent and grandparent folders ... which made this approach easier. One could see a status/count change in a top-level folder and drill down to the actual subfolder that contained it.
The roundcube system is currently getting about 73 emails per day (I know because the provider bills according to total traffic per month, and if my use exceeds a threshold then the volume will matter). I keep an eye on the monthly totals to see if I'm getting close to the threshold. The worst it's been, around a year ago, was 139 per day. I'm not sure what the FM daily count is, but as it doesn't affect billing it doesn't matter to me.
I don't read all of those mails; in the mail-lists I only read the threads that seem interesting. As threads tend to go off-topic, I sample a few mails in long threads to see if those that started off uninteresting to me became interesting later on.