On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 06:04:54PM +0530, Shyam Saini wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I have subscribed multiple mailing lists.

My question is how do kernel developers and other users manage their emails on daily basis considering the fact that we receive hundreds of mails everyday.

One way is to tag each mails with their name for example "NetDev".

I'm curious is their any other way?

I would one really appreciate if someone will share their experience and use case.

Gmail allows you to filter emails and place them into corresponding mailbox. For example, you can filter email by the "list" field and then tag them. For emails sent to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, I tag them with the tag "linux-kernel", and then Gmail will automatically create a folder (mailbox) called "linux-kernel" and places all emails from that mailing list there. When creating filter, you can also choose to remove those emails from INBOX so that they will not appear in two mailbox. In this way, all mails from all mailing list get sorted into different mailbox, making things clean. And then I download them using offlineimap, and use mutt to view them. Yubin

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 06:04:54PM +0530, Shyam Saini wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I have subscribed multiple mailing lists.

My question is how do kernel developers and other users manage their emails on daily basis considering the fact that we receive hundreds of mails everyday.

One way is to tag each mails with their name for example "NetDev".

I'm curious is their any other way?

There's a zillion other ways, it all depends on your workflow, your tools, what you want to do with the emails and what you expect to do with them after you have read them. So find the workflow that works best for you, the one that works best for me, probably doesn't work for anyone else :) Also, please use a good email client, any web-based one will usually not work at all for any decently active mailing list. good luck! greg k-h

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 06:04:54PM +0530, Shyam Saini wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I have subscribed multiple mailing lists.

My question is how do kernel developers and other users manage their emails on daily basis considering the fact that we receive hundreds of mails everyday.

One way is to tag each mails with their name for example "NetDev".

I'm curious is their any other way?

I would one really appreciate if someone will share their experience and use case.

A very common way of handling the email load is to filter one's email into different mailboxes/directories by subject and use a threaded mail user agent to organize the email into threads to help a little in reading the email. There are a lot of ways to do this, if you use a Linux computer to receive your email, a mail processing utility such as 'procmail' can be configured to automatically filter your incoming email into separate mailboxes. For example, I have a little over 30 directories that procmail filters incoming mail into. So I pretty much filter emails from each mailing list that I'm active on into separate directories, group some into a spam folder, etc. I access my mail via IMAP so the emails are filtered into directories but it could be into mbox files. I personally use mutt as my mail user agent (or email client) but there are many different options on Linux anyway. I find organizing the email into threads, within a subject directory, helps one to read the email is a more organized way and allows one to easily delete groups of related emails that not of interest. There is a LOT of info about the specifics of doing this and there are a lot of different options. If you are unfamiliar with this the biggest problem might be to decide on an approach to use.