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Archives for March 2006

Rules to Live By

March 21, 2006 by Leo

If you get a lot of email, think about how you deal with it as you process
it. Chances are you see who it’s from, or who it’s too, or perhaps even what
it’s about, and based on that, you decide what to do with the email. You might
respond to it immediately if it’s from someone important. You might leave it
for later if it’s a subscription to an email newsletter. Heck, you might even
delete it if it’s from someone you never want to hear from again.

(I’m going to assume, for the moment, that your spam is taken care of
elsewhere. Obviously in most cases, deleting spam is probably a goodly portion
of what you’re doing too. Dealing with spam, however, is a topic for another
day.)

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had someone to sort your email for you? Show you
the email that’s most important to you first? Perhaps even collect all those
email newsletters for you to read and peruse later, when you had the time?
Perhaps even completely filter out the email that you simply don’t want to
see?

Well, you already have such an assistant.

Inbox Rules.

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Choosing an Email Program

March 13, 2006 by Leo

I spend a good portion of my life in Microsoft Outlook (2003, the most recent version). For various reasons, Outlook has become
my email program of choice since before it was even called Outlook. That’s not to say I haven’t looked at other email programs.
I keep a copy of Outlook Express ready for answering people’s questions. I have Mozilla Thunderbird installed for it’s newsgroup
reader, for the available email encryption add-on, and for it’s ability to just “suck up” email in raw, plain text. I even have
a copy of a non-GUI email program called Pine, and regularly use the the old Unix/Linux plain vanilla workhorse “mail”.

Apparently a lot of my life revolves around email.

Unless you’re a geek like me (and heaven help you if you are), you don’t need a long list of email programs. You probably just
need one. The right one, of course.

So which one do you need? And how do you choose from the tens or perhaps hundreds of other choices?

How do you choose what email program to use?

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