{"id":419,"date":"2010-01-12T22:13:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T04:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2010-01-12T22:13:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T04:13:48","slug":"simplifying-my-mail-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/419","title":{"rendered":"Simplifying my mail management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a simple thing I did today that will save me some annoyance when dealing with new mail.<\/p>\n<p>I manage my mail in Thunderbird by the simple rule of: if it&#8217;s something I need to respond to or reread soon, it stays in the inbox. If it&#8217;s junk, junk it, if it&#8217;s totally ephemeral, trash it, otherwise it goes to the &#8216;old&#8217; folder. There are already keyboard shortcuts for junk and trash, but I was still dragging and dropping to put stuff in the old folder. Until I installed <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.mozillazine.org\/viewtopic.php?t=72994\">keyconfig<\/a> (and yeah, that link is as close as there is to a project page for the thing, unless you count the <a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla.dorando.at\/readme.html\">author&#8217;s homepage<\/a>). I then installed a script on O that says<br \/>\nMsgMoveMessage(&#8220;mailbox:\/\/nobody@Local%20Folders\/old&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>No more drag-n-drop to manage my email. Nice.<\/p>\n<p>(Update: now Thunderbird has that nice &#8216;A&#8217;-for-Archive button, so I use that instead. Had to archive everything from my &#8216;old&#8217; folder to make that happen, but that wasn&#8217;t too bad. I did have one problem, though: I had stuff in my &#8216;old&#8217; folder addressed to, for example, acct at ourada.org, which was an alias I used to use. Thunderbird got confused and tried to archive that to my gmail account. I just set the archive folder for all my accounts to a Local Folders one, and that problem went away.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a simple thing I did today that will save me some annoyance when dealing with new mail. I manage my mail in Thunderbird by the simple rule of: if it&#8217;s something I need to respond to or reread soon, it stays in the inbox. If it&#8217;s junk, junk it, if it&#8217;s totally ephemeral, trash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}