[meteorite-list] automatically sorting the M-List emails

From: Michael Murray <mmurray_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:16:28 -0700
Message-ID: <E31E8089-0D6F-4C87-85C1-29891EC09E3E_at_montrose.net>

Some folks are just plain touchy about receiving a lot of emails from
the Met-List or other mail lists. If you're one of those good
people, why don't you set up your MS Outlook or in the case of an Mac
your Mail program to sort all the incoming Met-List postings into a
folder other than your inbox. It doesn't matter then if you get 30
or 300 new emails in a day, you can quickly browse them, read the
ones you want, and delete as many as you want all at the same time.
I look through the posts and save the ones I want to save and do a
"select all" and delete every thing else in the folder. In a few
days, I do it all again. None of the emails from M-List members go
into my inbox. They all go to the new folder that I named "Meteorite
List" which by the way is on my computer's hard drive, not on the
server. There really isn't a good reason for me to save older M-
List emails because should I need to see one I can go to the archives
and find it quick using the search function.

Just one caution if you plan to set up your MS Outlook to do this,
when you have it all set up to select incoming messages based on the
"sent to", it will automatically sort all messages with that "sent
to" in to your new folder. Just wanted to prepare you for that. You
may want to study that a bit before going ahead with creating the new
folder. I wouldn't want someone to go ahead with creating the new
folder, hit the button only to see all of their previous sorting into
other folders go away. In MS Outlook, if I want to save a Met-List
post off by itself or in another folder, I doctor it so the automatic
sorting doesn't see it then I move it to the new location. The Mail
program on my Mac doesn't work like MS Outlook in this respect. As
far as I can tell, it only moves incoming messages right into the new
folder I set up.

Hope that if you are simply bugged by a lot of incoming messages or
want to keep your inbox clear for a business or other stuff that you
look into this. Study it first though, as it may not be for
everyone. If you decide to do this, just go to the help file and it
will lead you through the set-up.

All the Best,
Mike
Received on Wed 10 Dec 2008 09:16:28 PM PST