Trying to find some email sorting software

JazzBlack

Basically I get lots and lots of emails each day. I want some way of splitting it up via query. Some queries can be sorted instantly and some take at least two days so some way of splitting them so the quick ones get done and don't have to wait in a Que.

I was thinking of something like a phrase or keyword search in order to split it up. The headers and senders are various and wouldn't really help in terms of trying to organize it that way in outlook.

Is this possible? to many problems with it?

Or does anyone have any other ideas on how I could do this.

BlindZenDriver

Most of the better mail clients can do something like that. A great one that is even free is Thunderbird.

That is what I use and in it I have defined a few of what they call filters. Those filters sort incoming mail based on what ever conditions I choose like subject, sender and so on and then does different stuff accordingly which ranges from moving said mails to a specific folder, highlight some and so on.

bowen

Thunderbird should work semi close to what you want.

Essee

Yeah, I use SeaMonkey (which is now basically Firefox with a mail client pretty much identical to Thunderbird... but I like its interface better) and it's really easy to set up filters. You should be able to find "Manage message filters" somewhere for each account (I don't know if Thunderbird is different, but in SeaMonkey you just click on the account you're wanting to add filters to and it's under the Advanced Features section). It's got all sorts of features, like filtering by words in the subject and/or body of the e-mail (which sounds like what you need), and you can tell it to put the messages identified by the filter into specific folders in your mail. Very simple set up, just need to add your e-mail into Thunderbird. (If your e-mail uses POP3 and you want to leave messages on the server, make sure you have "Leave messages on server" checked under Server Settings for the account. I think this is NOT checked by default, which is why I mention it. But maybe you don't want things to stay there anyway? Maybe most people who have a POP3 e-mail don't do that? I dunno.)

I think technically Outlook can probably handle message filters too, but screw Outlook, it's terrible. Go with Thunderbird.

bowen

POP3 by default assumes you're downloading a local copy of your emails. It's not like you leave your snail mail at the post office to reference it later right?

Essee

bowen wrote: »

POP3 by default assumes you're downloading a local copy of your emails. It's not like you leave your snail mail at the post office to reference it later right?

That's why I said that probably most people who use POP3 do that, because that's often the very reason they're using the system. I, on the other hand, have a couple of Yahoo! Mail accounts that, for no good reason, need to be POP3 if you're not going through their webmail interface. And I want to be able to use those accounts across computers. Sooo, it's an important setting for me, which is why I thought to mention it.