How do you sieve/filter/manage your internet mail?

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A discussion on lobste.rs asking for advice on managing email, filtering, and tooling, with a focus on FOSS solutions and workflows for handling high volumes of mailing lists and patches.

Especially lobsters that are subscribed to twenty mailing lists and review a ton of patches. Do you have a particular workflow regarding archival and labels? What (preferably FOSS) tooling has been significantly helpful? Do you use something such as Sieve scripts?

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# How do you sieve/filter/manage your internet mail? Source: [https://lobste.rs/s/dku5yb/how_do_you_sieve_filter_manage_your](https://lobste.rs/s/dku5yb/how_do_you_sieve_filter_manage_your) Especially lobsters that are subscribed to twenty mailing lists and review a ton of patches\. Do you have a particular workflow regarding archival and labels? What \(preferably FOSS\) tooling has been significantly helpful? Do you use something such as Sieve scripts?

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