#MSGFILER FILE ALL MESSAGES IN THREAD FULL#

This fear is also reasonable and accurate. You also fear losing track of the email you haven't responded to - that it will fall between the cracks.

Here's the deal: your email has been accumulating because you don't have the time to answer it properly, which is certainly reasonable and accurate. Is that how you thought this worked? Answering 500 emails in 20 minutes? Jeez, it's no wonder you're such a mess. The dirty little secret, of course, is that you don't do it by responding to each of those emails but by ruthlessly processing them. It mostly depends on how much you really want to be done with it.

#MSGFILER FILE ALL MESSAGES IN THREAD FULL#

The truth is that you probably can take the average email inbox - even a relatively neglected one - from full to zero in about 20 minutes. This post is part of the Inbox Zero series. If that's working for you, by all means, keep fiddling and filing.Д«ut, if you're ready to admit you might be turning a crank that's potentially not hooked-up to anything, here's my four favorite ways to leverage the intelligence of Mail.app for drop-dead simple archiving. In addition to helping explode the myth that most email messages have any life once their actions have been liberated, it's a healthy habit to actively remove any unnecessary systematic fiddling that doesn't handsomely pay back the effort that habitually goes into it.ДЄnd, as ever: yes, some of you - because of the incredibly unique nature of your work in an office - will need to have 500 taxonomic mailboxes, a monthly archives by project, a person-by-person collection going back to 1983, and a multiply-copied CC'd team archives, coded by color and identified with helpful icons you found on Gopher in 1992. In fact, this kind of functional simplicity is something I've started to think of as a pillar of Inbox Zero.

For some time now, I've encouraged people to consider abandoning the byzantine folder structure that most of us used to employ to 'organize' our email.

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