Re: [OT] Emacs for email?

[vanicat@debian.org (Rémi Vanicat)]

Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

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> The summary is 5 actions when dealing with new email:
>
>     * Delete: just get rid of it (or archive it)
>     * Delegate: get someone else to deal with it
>     * Respond: if it takes just a few minutes, do it right now
>     * Defer: put it on a todo list, archive it, and deal with it later
>     * Do: handle whatever the email actually needs you to do
>
> The aim is to not have to go back to your inbox to see what you have
> to deal with -- that's what org-mode (or whatever) is for.  Too much
> time is wasted trawling through huge inboxes looking for actions to
> respond to which means you're using an inbox as a todo list.  This is
> not effective.
>

To come back to the initial discussion, note that gnus is well adapted
for this: by default, a read mail do not show-up anymore, making
everything automatically archived. 

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Rémi Vanicat