Comments on: Who’s guarding your inbox? Getting more done with email filters

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By: Jeffry Miser

Jeffry Miser — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:06:03 +0000

Interesting post, thanks for posting. It was good to read on this boring day!

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Tonisha Namihira — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:31:06 +0000

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By: Jarrod Bernstrom

Jarrod Bernstrom — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:53:36 +0000

I’ve got years of experience with writing anything from articles to reviews but this is really something…

By: Another keyword

Another keyword — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:16:31 +0000

Great blog, keeping me from working

By: evgenya

evgenya — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:27:35 +0000

DOH, just read Technotheory’s comment and clicked through to his link. just what I was asking about. Thanks.

By: evgenya

evgenya — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:26:13 +0000

Hey Aaron,

This is helpful and something I’ve always felt I should do more of, but procrastinate doing as it is a bit of a boring task. Perhaps you could include links to “how to create filters” in popular email readers like “Mail” or “Outlook” or even “Pine”, though the last one is probably not that popular anymore, for those who haven’t done this before. It might help jump start some people.

By: technotheory

technotheory — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:23:20 +0000

This is AWESOME, Aaron. I completely agree with using filters RUTHLESSLY. What I like best about this is you gave concrete suggestions for search terms to filter.

I hate linking to my own articles (especially since you already linked to me with AwayFind!), but I figured you’d want some video tutorials with how to actually create the filters. So that’s here: http://sn.im/filtermail

Glad to see you’re writing more again here, Aaron! Looking forward to more ice cream : )

By: Jonathan Argue

Jonathan Argue — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:49:01 +0000

Myself, as a gmail user, I make heavy use of the label feature. I’ve created a few filters that auto-label emails as they come in – e.g. a voice mail message from a VOIP account.
As I organize a number of events, I find labels very useful for categorizing streams of information as it comes in… then if you want to concentrate on a particular stream, you just search on the appropriate label.

Another method I use for getting rid of spam is a challenge-response system. Basically, if an email gets sent to my domain and it is not on my whitelist (maintained on the server that hosts my domain), the sender gets an automated response asking them to simply reply in order for their message to be send to me. This gets rid of about 95% of those ‘I HAVE ONE MILLION DOLLARS WAITING FOR YOU IN AN ACCOUNT’ and those ‘ LARGER MALE APPENDAGE’ emails… as Spam bots seem to ignore messages coming back to them. Where it fails is when people use a reply to address that is your own (you’d typically want to whitelist you own email).