Tame Your Email With Thunderbird
Folders and Filters Are Your Friends
Just because your email addresses are all separated doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t use folders and filters. They can definitely be a wonderful organization tool when used properly.
A great example would be if you have an email address set up exclusively for your newsletter subscriptions (which I highly recommend), create a new folder for each individual newsletter and create a filter to send the messages automatically to that folder. When you receive your newsletter issues, you can see at a glance which newsletter it is and decide whether you should read it at that moment or save it until later.
NOTE: Creating a filter can be as easy as opening up an email message and selecting “create new filter from message”.
NOTE: The best way to use this system to its fullest potential is to stay on the ball with creating new folders and filters whenever necessary. If you subscribe to a new newsletter or know you’ll be receiving messages from a source you want filtered away from your inbox messages, create the folder and filter before you start receiving an influx of email from them.
Prioritizing what you read becomes infinitely easier when you can see at-a-glance what is sitting in your inbox.
May 21st, 2005 at 9:17 pm
okay, okay! I’ll try it!
May 23rd, 2005 at 3:42 pm
Don’t forget to let us know how you get on with it
May 27th, 2005 at 4:19 pm
Fantastic Teli
Personally I love thunderbird, and had only recently found the crossover theme, the only problem I had was that it didn’t work with the calendar extension, and so ended up downloading Sunbird instead, but otherwise it’s fantastic, especially for sorting your mail and it’s junk filter, definitely better than OE. There’s one thing you forgot to mention, on the fly plain text to HTML viewing through the view menu, it’s so much more flexible than OE’s rigid one or the other approach, I would give it 10/10
May 27th, 2005 at 5:33 pm
Thanks Phill,
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I’ve heard a lot of people say that about the Cross Over theme, that it’s not compatible with the Calendar, but it works just dandy with mine (maybe he upgraded the plugin when I wasn’t looking
And you’re right…the plain text to HTML viewing on the fly is much better than OE.