Email Organization

twilson

I was just wondering what everyone does to keep their email life organized.

At home I use Outlook with just some POP mailboxes and I flag messages to let me know things need to be done...

But then I go to a customer's to work for a day and all that gets left at home and now I have my email but I don't know what's important and what's not and it's all just a big mess.

I've got a BlackBerry too, which is invaluable, but still, I am so lost. 😕 😕 😕

What does everyone else do short of setting up an Exchange server with VPN?? Is there a Linux solution? I use Fedora Core 3 on my laptop...

Peace,
Tom

csn

I just setup DBMail and it seems pretty cool - stores all email in the database (Postgresql or Mysql). It has imap and pop3 daemons too, which so far have worked well (after I greatly reduced DBMail's default number of processes/connections).

I use Yahoo for a lot of email too. I never use client-side apps like Outlook or Thunderbird - hate downloading and storing all that email.

AstroTeg

Thunderbird at home and office with the office version leaving the messages on the server minus the ones I delete (spam and junk). Then I get home and pop them all off without all the spam/junk from earlier in the day. When I'm on the go, I can use 3 different web mail clients (Neomail, Horde, Squiremail) if I need to do something email related (they'll still sit on the server until I download them at home). My cell phone can handle email as well, but that's more of a last resort.

twilson

So you setup a server at your house/work and have DBMail pulling down your mail from all your addresses to it and storing it? Then you just use IMAP or a web interface or.... ?

Can you pull other POP mail into Yahoo?

Peace,
Tom

csn

Originally posted by twilson
So you setup a server at your house/work and have DBMail pulling down your mail from all your addresses to it and storing it? Then you just use IMAP or a web interface or.... ?

Can you pull other POP mail into Yahoo?

Peace,
Tom

I haven't tried pulling email from Yahoo into DBMail, but I'd be surprised if it couldn't easily be done (via pop3).

I occasionally pull email from dbmail into Yahoo, via pop3.

vaaaska

dbmail sounds interesting...

rule number one if you are going to put a web app out there...PUT UP SCREENSHOTS...

goldbug

Originally posted by vaaaska
rule number one if you are going to put a web app out there...PUT UP SCREENSHOTS...

Or any app for that matter, desktop apps included.

vaaaska

Originally posted by goldbug
Or any app for that matter, desktop apps included.

Actually...I wanted to say that but becuase I don't know anything about writing stuff like that I didn't want to make a full-on jerk of myself.

So, I'm just being a half jerk instead.

😉

csn

Screen shots of command line utilities?

vaaaska

Originally posted by csn
Screen shots of command line utilities?

Is that what DBMail is? I wouldn't know...

(I bet it says that on their website but it took me more than 7 seconds to read that so my mind blanked out and I went some where else).

csn

There's a web interface to DBMail:

DBMail Administrator
http://library.mobrien.com/dbmailadministrator/

dalecosp

Originally posted by csn
Screen shots of command line utilities?

At another forum I watch, I nearly laughed 'til I puked my toenails up when I saw, in this thread, this screenshot....

😃