Mailing Lists Galore in Gmail
December 19, 2005
Now that Gmail allows sending from alternate "From:" addresses, I've started using it as my mail client for samba.org mail. The labels are ideal for handling massive amounts of mailing list mail.
With a typical mail client, I have to set precedence on filter rules. If I get a message to our commits list, and then later, there are several replies regarding the mail on our samba technical list, I would have to store the same piece of mail in either one or the other of the two folders, samba commits or samba technical.
Gmail allows me to apply both labels to the same piece of mail. So a
search for recent commits or the latest technical discussion contains the
same mail. It's fluid folders. And since I'm comfortable with Google
search syntaxes label:samba_commit subject:samba-web from the
search input is quick and convenient for me.
I've also got a neat little Greasemonkey script for doing PGP signing of mails. A bit novelty perhaps, but I'll share it when it's ready to show.
