[Off-Topic] - Using gmail for forums

[Claus Ibsen <ci...@silverbullet.dk>]

Hi

As you might have noticed I am using my employers mail account (exchange and outlook) for all my camel activities as well.

I am wondering switching to gmail, but I would like some pointers from existing users? How do you manage your gmail account with both regular mails and forum mails?

Can you setup some agents or some sort to sort the mails for you so your mailbox isn't cluttered?


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Re: [Off-Topic] - Using gmail for forums

[Vadim Chekan <vc...@cox.net>]

Yup. Just subscribe and when first mail strike, select action "Filter 
messages like that", tune your filter, and set 2 options on it. 
"Archive" means do not put message into inbox. And another action is to 
apply label, which creates virtual folder for this mail.

Vadim.

James Strachan wrote:
> 2008/9/18 Claus Ibsen <ci...@silverbullet.dk>:
>> Hi
>>
>> As you might have noticed I am using my employers mail account (exchange and outlook) for all my camel activities as well.
>>
>> I am wondering switching to gmail, but I would like some pointers from existing users? How do you manage your gmail account with both regular mails and forum mails?
>>
>> Can you setup some agents or some sort to sort the mails for you so your mailbox isn't cluttered?
> 
> I use gmail for all OSS mailing lists; its really easy to setup a
> filter and label to move all project related mail into a kinda folder.
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6579
> 
> Another option could be to just use nabble? Though I do prefer using
> gmail's nice threaded support for conversations etc.
> 

Re: [Off-Topic] - Using gmail for forums

[James Strachan <ja...@gmail.com>]

2008/9/18 Claus Ibsen <ci...@silverbullet.dk>:
> Hi
>
> As you might have noticed I am using my employers mail account (exchange and outlook) for all my camel activities as well.
>
> I am wondering switching to gmail, but I would like some pointers from existing users? How do you manage your gmail account with both regular mails and forum mails?
>
> Can you setup some agents or some sort to sort the mails for you so your mailbox isn't cluttered?

I use gmail for all OSS mailing lists; its really easy to setup a
filter and label to move all project related mail into a kinda folder.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6579

Another option could be to just use nabble? Though I do prefer using
gmail's nice threaded support for conversations etc.

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Re: [Off-Topic] - Using gmail for forums

[Jon <jo...@gmail.com>]

One other *very* important link for setting up Sylpheed to use gmail accounts...even though the info is for Thunderbird, the info is useful for Sylpheed:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77662&topic=12814

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:55:36 -0400
Jon <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I am wondering switching to gmail, but I would like some pointers from existing users? How do you manage
> > your gmail account with both regular mails and forum mails?
> > 
> > Can you setup some agents or some sort to sort the mails for you so your mailbox isn't cluttered?
> > 
> 
> I highly recommend http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ as a client and tie it into multiple gmail accounts that I use.
> 
> It has great filtering capabilities -- I use it to manage many mailing lists and sort things into local folders for reading/managing offline -- and it runs well on Windows systems.  My install on a Windows box was painless.
> 
> If you're so inclined, you can theme it to your liking as it use GTK+....I like the Nodoka-Aqua theme :)
> 
> And I believe you can even run it off of a thumb drive if needed :)
> 
> 
> 

Re: [Off-Topic] - Using gmail for forums

[Jon <jo...@gmail.com>]

> I am wondering switching to gmail, but I would like some pointers from existing users? How do you manage
> your gmail account with both regular mails and forum mails?
> 
> Can you setup some agents or some sort to sort the mails for you so your mailbox isn't cluttered?
> 

I highly recommend http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ as a client and tie it into multiple gmail accounts that I use.

It has great filtering capabilities -- I use it to manage many mailing lists and sort things into local folders for reading/managing offline -- and it runs well on Windows systems.  My install on a Windows box was painless.

If you're so inclined, you can theme it to your liking as it use GTK+....I like the Nodoka-Aqua theme :)

And I believe you can even run it off of a thumb drive if needed :)