Thousands of messages a day, though most of it filtered so it never shows up in my inbox.
I'm a technical director at a media agency, but the vast majority of my e-mail is stuff that goes to my personal account, related to various open source projects and my other things I do in my spare time - my work e-mail is maybe 5% of my total e-mail volume.
My use case is accessing my e-mail from 10+ different places, some of which I don't have decent shell access from (such as my phone, where a console based, key based client is out of the question), combined with heavy use of labels and priority inbox.
I gave up on console based e-mail clients about 12 years ago, when I co-founded a webmail service. Never looked back.
I take it that most of that email is stuff that you can safely ignore, much of it generated by humans, the remainder perhaps automated reminders/responses, etc.
In my case, most of the messages are system alerts, logs, notifications, etc., along with human-generated messages, reminders, etc.
Some I can ignore, some I've got to have at least a gist of what they contain. Trending patterns in others can be very valuable.
For all of these, a console client generally offers major wins over webmail, as I've described.
I'm a technical director at a media agency, but the vast majority of my e-mail is stuff that goes to my personal account, related to various open source projects and my other things I do in my spare time - my work e-mail is maybe 5% of my total e-mail volume.
My use case is accessing my e-mail from 10+ different places, some of which I don't have decent shell access from (such as my phone, where a console based, key based client is out of the question), combined with heavy use of labels and priority inbox.
I gave up on console based e-mail clients about 12 years ago, when I co-founded a webmail service. Never looked back.