In
Developing A Personal Email Management Strategy I discussed the sorting, filtering and processing of the seemingly endless flow of email I receive. Recently, I took the plunge and converted my non work email to IMAP in preparation for converting work email to the same. The goal is to be able to see important direct email on my iPhone without seeing all the list traffic, commercial communications and other
solicited bulk email
First, Some History
Google Aps For Your Domain) for different types email traffic,
travel@ for example for when i signed up for travel related services and lists,
buy@ for commercial email and receipts after making purchases. This made sorting and filtering the incoming email really easy, just set up a message filter in Thunderbird based on the
To: address. But all of these email addresses were just aliases delivering the mail to my primary account. Thus when checking email on the
iPhone, sifting through all the solicited bulk email for the personal messages was like finding a needle in a hay stack.