Automatically moving marked mails?

[Greg A. Woods]

At Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:40:44 +0100, Ian Eiloart <iane at sussex.ac.uk> wrote:
Subject: Re: Automatically moving marked mails?
> 
> Suggestions?

The answers will depend entirely on what platform one chooses and what
requirements one has for e-mail use.

Personally I'd suggest Mac OSX and Apple Mail as a first cut for anyone
who wants an easy-to-manage and easy-to-use, and half-decent MUA.

It doesn't do everything I want to do as a hyper-experienced e-mail
user, nor is it apparently easy to write proper extensions for, but it
certainly does cover all the main requirements the average user has.

Equally I'm sure Thunderbird works well for many people too.


> For an integrated email and calendar tool?

After all these years I still fail to see what e-mail and calendar
keeping have to do with each other.  It's lunacy to put them in the same
tool.  Use the right tool for the job.

Yes, doing scheduling and calendar maintenance requires communicating
between multiple parties, but e-mail is _not_ the right tool for this
kind of communications!

Personally I'm still a big fan of centralization wherever it makes
sense, and it especially makes sense when the model one is using to
design an implement solutions to a given problem requires shared access
to unified data.

Perhaps Google Apps calendaring is the right tool for some folks.

Perhaps Apple OSX iCal works well enough (and for those who insist on
using e-mail to communicate calendaring information, well it just so
happens that iCal does integrate with your mail reader to send and
receive notifications and facilitates some basic ability to "share"
events, but of course iCal also supports full management of proper
central calendars too, as well as read-only subscriptions to centrally
maintained calendars, etc.).

Perhaps Mozilla's answers to calendar management would work for many
folks too.  Mozilla even cater to those who can't seem to separate
calendar management from e-mail in their minds with Lightning, but
personally I'd stick with Sunbird if I were to use Mozilla's tools.

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