From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 14 19:31:30 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2548E5F for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:31:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-x22f.google.com (mail-pb0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c01::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A33B1D82 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:31:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f47.google.com with SMTP id rp16so12736251pbb.34 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:31:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=5KjJz98bTEynkHQHq+eZqm44St/zJT/uplptHUYxQ04=; b=xhz2sTUlK7r0QVPw76Xtfal+vLnaiavCPih2yJfGgH/Zlm6csOxkNyFcRwM7x4D5nz E1O35fCV9l62nR4zZYzKZ9tdbgnAosESlO+lyDQdt93v7VtQQB+GLbx4qO1F0W4ZuyOf 8k+KtkntunfwSUGuTuuUY0eGGqFlZw6NGbMOYMlQPj2tYtG3z1oKzS1m0VoFRcvjGR8z kAXa+g6Sucf7Esd3L2ce+S1uLhm/OLrwbXy/Xx+ZHPwNK+5Y4iwY6TrMh38+eOYeI3vr 1FmzyTmZc4uSZUdrG4qRMqWy79Naqat2V8uaTnasRQxu+Em7P+VY5ndKJuOHEHV0bRF+ TthQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.189.5 with SMTP id ge5mr11143746pbc.42.1392406290069; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:31:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.155.38 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:31:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:31:30 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: OT: odd gmail behavior From: Aryeh Friedman To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:31:30 -0000 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... -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org