
The 80/20 rule states that 20 percent of inputs are responsible for 80 percent of the outputs in any situation. Most email management tips are just different ways of accomplishing one goal: separate unimportant emails from important ones. In the next section, we describe several important email management tips to help you reclaim the control over your inbox.Įffectively manage your Inbox with the Clean Email app. Learning a few basic email management tips is often enough to achieve Inbox Zero, which is to say not having any unread emails left. Without a well-thought-out strategy for managing email, people often find themselves unable to handle incoming emails in a timely manner and end up with overflowing inboxes and important messages being buried somewhere deep underneath massive piles of junk.įortunately, email management is not rocket science. Legitimate newsletters, emails from friends, family, and colleagues, notifications from online services and app-all of these fight for our limited time and attention. But spam messages are just one part of the email conundrum. Yes, every second email sent to you belongs to trash. What may come as a shock to you is that approximately 60 percent of total email traffic is represented by spam messages. By 2022, experts predict this number to grow to 330 billion. I don't get the opportunity to poke around with new things too often, so this is a bit of a refresher.According to statistics, the number of sent and received emails per day worldwide is around 280 billion. Not quite how I wanted to spend my holidays but. I could always wait to see if Apple fixes their sh*t, but at this point I'm so annoyed that maybe this has pushed me to find something better.
#MAILMATE DELEETE ADDRESS TRIAL#
maybe it's worth it? Will need to keep digging/playing during this trial period to see if it's worth the price. It's a bit steeply priced for a mail client ($50USD) but since I'm in my email all the time. The only thing I found is that holding OPTION while clicking the thread triangle or the right arrow key will expand the thread (OPTION+LEFT-ARROW to collapse the thread, but it's a bit wonky and not great as you need to be on the first message in the thread to expand/collapse the entire thread).ĭigging into it, it looks fairly powerful. The lack of GSSAPI isn't a deal-breaker (although it sure would be nice), but the thread expansion issue is pretty annoying. The only downside that I've found so far is that it does not support Kerberos authentication (GSSAPI) and I can't find a way to have threads expanded by default. Some esoteric things are not configurable in the Preferences, so checking the Help for "Hidden Preferences" and "Low-Level Customization" will let you tweak things even further. This one changes the "on so and so wrote:" string to "On, at 9:59 AM, So and So wrote:" (slightly different from the default) % defaults write MmReplyWroteString -string 'On %m/%d/%Y, at %k:%M %p, $ wrote:'Īll of the other settings are largely set in the Preferences. % defaults write MmHeadersViewFontSize -float 14 The mail headers text cannot, but a quick trip to the Terminal fixes it and makes it easier for me to read: % defaults write MmHeadersViewFontName -string "Verdana" Some font settings can be changed in the preferences. A few things I want to note so that I don't forget when setting it up on the other system: So I've been playing this morning with MailMate which looks intriguing. I'm not restarting my desktop mail client everytime I manipulate a mailbox on my phone. Seriously? Even telling it to sync/refresh/get new mail doesn't make those deleted messages (that are most definitely gone on the web UI) disappear. Which, in fact, looking at my mail this morning (after having been replying/deleting/etc mail on my phone the last two days), I see all the messages I've delete still showing as new on my computer, despite having been deleted days ago. been using Google Apps for years, love it, not changing.

does not.īefore anyone yacks about Gmail itself.


#MAILMATE DELEETE ADDRESS UPDATE#
how do you release a complete and utter CRAP email client in 10.9.0, have an update to fix Gmail, then have more Gmail-related fixes in 10.9.1 and it STILL is complete and utter crap? Mountain Lion's Mail worked just peachy with Gmail. It works well, and I've gotten used to using a GUI for my personal email and like it.īut then Mavericks came out and everything changed. I've been using Apple Mail for a while now for my personal email on my mac, and mutt for my work email on my Fedora box. To begin with, I liked Apple Mail in Mountain Lion (and Lion also).
