Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 13:53:58 -0600 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: odd gmail behavior Message-ID: <1392580438.21020.84094525.187DA3AE@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXnnELbcKubyLCwK3O4giFfZL1tNvkNRx6SVxmeBHK-3=A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGBxaXnnELbcKubyLCwK3O4giFfZL1tNvkNRx6SVxmeBHK-3=A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2014, at 13:31, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Since gmail does not have its own forums (as far I can tell) I am asking > this here. Maybe someone, here, knows: > > 1. Gmail determines the importance of a piece of mail by (among other > things) how frequently you read related mails (for example it considers > ports-bugs@ to be important for my case but that's only because I > currently > have a couple of ports in the process of being committed) > > 2. There seems no way (besides reading this include marking it as read) > to > mark a message as being not important > > 3. As a result of the above, in the last 2 weeks my important and unread > folder has exploded from 2 or 3 messages a day (ones that are truly > important) to over 50 thus making the feature useless > > Any ideas? > > P.S. at some point the project listed in my signature will be adding > support for preconfigured mail servers and such; once this happens the > above is moot... but til then... > Can't you disable that feature entirely?
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