Break Even
Posted by Ceri Davies Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:54:00 GMT
I lost the battle with my email. With over 8000 mails in my primary inbox, and over 20000 unread mails in various other mailboxes, it’s been a hard battle for the last 9 months anyway - one which I’ve always been losing. Over the last month or so I just gave up, and haven’t really been reading any mail at all.
However, in the last two weeks I’ve not only found a graphical mail client that I find usable (Mail.app, of course), but the mutt config that was supposed to work (but mysteriously didn’t) has (just as mysteriously) started working. This means that I can finally actually use IMAP with a little confidence.
With that in mind, and spurred on by item 5 in Merlin’s “deal with mail” tips I’ve decided to delete the lot and reorganise the whole way that I deal with mail so that it’s more in line with what normal people do (one folder per mailing list, blah) and see how I get on with that. This means that if you sent me mail recently then not only have I not read it, but I probably never will, and it feels good.
