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25 May 2017, 02:45 PM | #16 | |
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26 May 2017, 05:59 AM | #17 | |
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9 Jun 2017, 11:35 PM | #18 |
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I'm testing out FastMail mainly because of privacy concerns.
FM can't compete with Gsuite/Google Apps for 3rd email functionality it seems, which is disappointing. http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=71499 |
15 Jun 2021, 07:52 PM | #19 | |
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I filter into a couple of folders that makes my life very much easier as it separates what needs to be looked at quickly from that that doesn't. My filtered inboxes are: - INBOX (personal emails from friends and anything genuinely new) - home (utility bills, bank statements, shopping receipts and orders etc) - work (anything to do with work outside of my works email, professional institutions, LinkedIn etc) - tech (anything to do with tech; hardware, software, tech forums, PC, NAS, peripherals, etc) - list (general misc. subscriptions) Only the INBOX folder makes notifications. It is very rare to get false positive/negative spam through Fastmail (at least for me). [edit: removed a half sentence that made no sense] |
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15 Jun 2021, 08:05 PM | #20 |
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16 Jun 2021, 07:57 PM | #21 | |
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They're mainly for mail-lists, and many of those are low traffic. The rest of my email is elsewhere on a roundcube webmail system, and there there's about 400 separate folders specified in filter rules. In both systems the folders are in hierarchies according to types of mails, broad areas of discussion etc, with subfolders for specific subsets. There's other folders too, not directly targets for filtering, but - especially on the roundcube system I find folders that contain more than a few hundred mails are slow to open. For those I keep previous years' traffic (or in some cases previous 3-month or 6-month sets of mails) in dated subfolders. In both cases, "Inbox" is where stuff goes if it is not filtered elsewhere. I only need to scroll through the folder list to find out if what sorts of new mail have arrived, and I can (and do) completely ignore subsets of new mails if I've not got the time/energy to look at them. If they were all in one huge mixed folder I wouldn't be able to do that. I also rarely have to search for specific mails as I already know which folder they will be in. Both the folders and the filter rules that manage them are named carefully, again making it easy to find, for example, insurance-related ones, or mail lists, or whatever. |
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16 Jun 2021, 09:08 PM | #22 |
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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 |
17 Jun 2021, 12:11 AM | #23 | |
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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. |
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17 Jun 2021, 12:41 AM | #24 | |
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I use the Fastmail app on my iPhone and Fastmate on my Mac. |
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