Work productivity, time management, organization, tools and tips

When gone on vacation the urgent emails deserve at least an automatic response from you. By paying a reasonable fee you can either get your emails through SMS or get a Killer App to sort them automatically and send you only the ones that present interest. At least to me it seems the simplest solution.

Jackie,
What kind of Killer App are you talking about? That sounds interesting.

I’m thinking of something like Mail Manager, a program that filters emails, separates spam from important mails and sends them to the right department in a company. It’s not the greatest for home use but it does its job. Anyway in the way the mail managers evolve it’s pretty easy to find the solution that suits you best.

I have mixed feelings about filters. For some folks, projects and the people associated with them come and go so fast that it's not worth the time to set up folders and filters for them. I have occasionally tried sending subscription emails to their own folders but that tends to insure that I will never read them!

If I have a forest of folders to look at email in, I start feeling like I'm at Costco and my eyes glaze over. One big jumbled in-box actually works better for me. To each her own!

Looks like the filters on my email (for spam and viruses) are going crazy. I’m not sure exactly what was causing it, but mail was being rejected with a “Deferred: 451 4.7.1 Please try again later”. There is definitely something strange going on.