Re: [Evolution] New List Member, Many Questions

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

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On 04-Jun-2002/23:54 -0400, Frank Gore <fgore sympatico ca> wrote:
> I've been looking everywhere for help on setting up Evolution to help m
> do my job, but without any success so far. Hopefully the people on this
> list can finally help me figure things out.
>
> Part of my job involves answering hundreds of emails everyday from
> countless customers. All my emails need to be carefully sorted as they
> come in so that I can keep track of everything that's happening. On
> average, I receive about 600 emails a day. So obviously I need a lot of
> filters. And that's where one of my problems comes up:
[snip]

Have you given any thought to a character-based mail client? A combination
of procmail and pine would do what you need, and it would be much faster
than any graphical client. If you're handling 600 messages a day, you need
a powerful mail client solution. For filtering, nothing can touch
procmail. It can filter on any header and can call formail to add Reply-To
headers as needed.

Pine has a feature called "roles" that allows you to set all kinds of
things based on the role the message is associated with. There are ways to
set criteria in pine that determine the role, but I would just have
procmail add an X-Pine-Role header during the filtering process to make
things easy for pine. I would still have to tell pine to use that header
to set the role, but it's easier to use procmail's regexp power to figure
out what role should be associated with a given message.

In pine you can associate a template and a sig with a role. That should
allow you to specify Bcc and Fcc headers as part of the template.

For tasks and calendar items, you could use ical. You could add the
command "ical -popup" to your session startup to display today's tasks and
appointments.

These programs are not a single integrated solution, but they are very
good at what they do, and they'll allow you to get things done quickly,
even on an modest machine.


Tony
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