>The thing is, I use my inbox for receipts of purchases,
Stuff like Amazon.com emails are whitelisted. They go into the "low priority" folder, not my inbox. For one-off vendors, I simply "save" their emails without adding them to the whitelist. It's easier to understand if you've used notmuch. I simply remove the quarantine tag from them and they're stored in the email database. One keystroke.
I'm not any different from you. If I purchase anything on the Internet and get a confirmation email, I aim to keep it.
I still check the quarantine folder from time to time.
>confirmations of online accounts
I'm not sure I see the problem. I still can see the quarantined emails. If I'm expecting such an email, I check it within a few minutes. I click on the link to confirm my email address - I merely do not add the sender to the whitelist.
>all sorts of other stuff where I am interacting with, or storing information from an automated agent.
An example would help. Some use cases from me:
- Calendar reminder emails - Whitelisted: They go to the low priority folder (as counterintuitive as the phrase sounds). They do not go into my inbox.
- Library overdue emails - same as above
- Emails from my medical provider (e.g. "new test results") - same as above
If you get automated emails for which you have automated actions, those can go right into the Python script and handled before they are quarantined.
> I'm not sure I see the problem. I still can see the quarantined emails.
I completely misunderstood that the quarantine is just a folder next to the inbox. It's the obvious solution, from both a technical and usability point of view, and takes care of all my points.
Stuff like Amazon.com emails are whitelisted. They go into the "low priority" folder, not my inbox. For one-off vendors, I simply "save" their emails without adding them to the whitelist. It's easier to understand if you've used notmuch. I simply remove the quarantine tag from them and they're stored in the email database. One keystroke.
I'm not any different from you. If I purchase anything on the Internet and get a confirmation email, I aim to keep it.
I still check the quarantine folder from time to time.
>confirmations of online accounts
I'm not sure I see the problem. I still can see the quarantined emails. If I'm expecting such an email, I check it within a few minutes. I click on the link to confirm my email address - I merely do not add the sender to the whitelist.
>all sorts of other stuff where I am interacting with, or storing information from an automated agent.
An example would help. Some use cases from me:
- Calendar reminder emails - Whitelisted: They go to the low priority folder (as counterintuitive as the phrase sounds). They do not go into my inbox.
- Library overdue emails - same as above
- Emails from my medical provider (e.g. "new test results") - same as above
If you get automated emails for which you have automated actions, those can go right into the Python script and handled before they are quarantined.