Re: [PLUG] good linux mail clients

["Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>]

> The problem with this is that I don't want to archive my read mail -
> if that were the case in most email clients I could just create a
> "smart folder" that displays unread mail.  I want to archive email
> that has been acted upon,

Interesting.     This is kind of like a workflow, where you are archiving
things that are done,  assuming that every other email has actions
to complete ?


So to do a similar workflow in Zimbra, I "flag" emails that require
further action.  Zimbra automatically pops up a dialog when the email
is flagged and I enter the reminder date and short note and a calendar reminder
is added.    For example the date I need to follow up on an email that was
received.   If sending,  I click the "send and remind" button and it
generates a future reminder regarding the email that was sent.

Note these features require the free "Email Reminder" plugin.

Since the minority of email requires no further action, I don't need to do
anything special for 95% of my email.



Lee


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rich Freeman" <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
> To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Saturday, 12 January, 2013 5:10:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] good linux mail clients
> 
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Lee H. Marzke <lee@marzke.net>
> wrote:
> >> My main issue with Zimbra is that the web-based client lacked
> >> keyboard
> >> shortcuts the last time I looked into it,
> >
> > I think you were looking a really old version. Hitting <Cntl>-Q
> > when in any part of Zimbra 7.1.3GA
> > (web client) shows you the available keyboard shortcuts.
> 
> I might take another look at it, but what is usually lacking in email
> clients is a shortcut to remove a message from the inbox without
> deleting it.  The only email client I'm aware of that has it is
> Gmail,
> but there might be others.
> 
> >>Having to do a mouse click or two
> >> every time I read a message to send it to my archive folder is
> >> just
> >> way to slow,
> >
> > The way to do that in zimbra is to just read messages in your
> > INBOX,  and
> > then write a filter that you run periodically ( manually ) to scan
> > the folder and
> > moved all read message to a destination folder.
> 
> The problem with this is that I don't want to archive my read mail -
> if that were the case in most email clients I could just create a
> "smart folder" that displays unread mail.  I want to archive email
> that has been acted upon, which only sometimes happens when I've read
> it.  In the case of Gmail there is a send+archive button on replies
> which takes care of that in a single stroke, assuming the reply
> constituted the only necessary action.
> 
> Archival has to be manual, but it has to involve minimal keystrokes
> and no mouse clicks since I do it constantly.
> 
> But, I will acknowledge that Zimbra is a very good option overall.
>  If
> I could use Gmail that would be a likely fallback candidate (as would
> be Horde).
> 
> Rich
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