Sorting emails with rules and signatures
“Nerkle” (I think that’s right) has posted a neat trick on his blog for organising the way your email files itself in
Here’s what I did (I use Apple Mail on Tiger):
- I created a couple of extra signatures, one with my usual sig, plus a tag like [*ABC.wf*] (where ABC is your initials or something unique) which I set to be white text and very tiny so it’s invisible to most people.
- I also made a sig called “inivisi-wf” with just the tag in white, for less formal emails.
- I created a Rule like “message content” contains [*ABC.wf*] and have that route the message to your Waiting For folder.
- BCC myself on WF emails.
This was much easier than setting up a whole other email address, and I don’t really care if someone with a non-HTML capable email client sees my little tag.
It has the added benefit that replies will also go to your “waiting for” folder if the responder doesn’t strip your sig.
Nerkle is using this to keep track of emails that need a response or that he can’t afford to let slip off the radar (bouncing off a post on 43Folders).
You can, of course, modify this approach to do other things by creating the sigs that you need and the rules to move the Bcc’ed emails (and responses) into the mailboxes you use.
Obviously, no self-respecting plain-texter is going to use this tip.
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