e-mail tool

[Greg McCarty <gr...@smart.net>]

Is there a utility available which would organize the e-mails send on the
dev and user lists?  I'm thinking of something that would list the first
e-mail in date order, and each corresponding response in a tree like
structure under the first.  This stikes me as a better way to capture the
e-mails.

Is there such an animal?

GregM

Re: e-mail tool

["Craig R. McClanahan" <Cr...@eng.sun.com>]

Greg McCarty wrote:

> Is there a utility available which would organize the e-mails send on the
> dev and user lists?  I'm thinking of something that would list the first
> e-mail in date order, and each corresponding response in a tree like
> structure under the first.  This stikes me as a better way to capture the
> e-mails.
>
> Is there such an animal?
>

I use Netscape Communicator for reading mail, and it is really easy to set
this up:

* Set up a message filter that copies all messages that have
  a "To:" or "Cc:" address containing STRUTS-DEV to a special
  folder for this mailing list.  (I am on ~25 mailing lists -- this lets
  me focus on one list at a time).

* View --> Sort --> By Thread to sort messages as threaded
  conversations.

By default I leave all my mailing lists sorted this way, but Netscape lets
you change the sort order on the fly as well -- so you can say "sort by
sender" and see all the messages from a particular person, no matter which
threaded conversation they were participating in.  But I normally go back to
threaded mode after that.

>
> GregM

Craig

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