{"id":1226,"date":"2004-06-13T19:35:03","date_gmt":"2004-06-13T23:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2004-06-13T19:35:03","modified_gmt":"2004-06-13T23:35:03","slug":"email-experiment-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"email experiment overload"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week I decided to give Opera’s<\/a> mail client a proper go because I was sick of the horrible editor in the Bat,<\/a> and sick, too, of maintaining a list of about 90 filters for different correspondents which all got reset to filter things back into the inbox in a crash soe months ago.<\/p>\n\n

Opera’s mail client works like nothing else. It’s rather good, but you waste the first week trying to set up filters to make it work like a normal mail program. Essentially the “received” view, or inbasket is completely useless unless it is switched to show only unread, non-spam mail. Everything else is accessed through ad-hoc views. To find mail from anyone you have ever contacted is a matter of typing their name into the incremental search box: a filter appears with all that correspondence in it. This looks like a very promising way to work.<\/p>\n\n

There are snags. The three biggest that I have found:<\/p>\n\n\n