From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pete Phillips Subject: processing pending emails as part of your GTD system Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:55:13 +0100 Message-ID: <24266.1208760913@localhost> Reply-To: pete@smtl.co.uk Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jnpw9-00028r-Uu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:55:38 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jnpw8-00028f-GE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:55:37 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jnpw8-00028c-Aw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:55:36 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jnpw7-0004ll-PY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:55:35 -0400 Received: from mailhost.smtl.co.uk ([193.131.77.174]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jnpw6-0002Ty-Qu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:55:35 -0400 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: org-mode mailing list This post is slighly off-topic, as it is not directly about org-mode. As many of you on the list will know, I'm a big fan of David Allen's GTD system, and over the years I have tweaked my use of MH and MH-E to help support this use. One thing I have done is design a method so that I can easily put emails into a set of 'pending' mail folders, and then get cron to process these and dump the emails back into my +inbox at appropriate dates. Having mentioned this on the MH-E list recently, someone asked if I could share the scripts with them, so I have written this up here: http://ccgi.philfam.co.uk/wordpress/2008/04/20/24 I suspect you could extend this to any email system where you have command line access to your email system. Hope you find this useful. Pete -- Pete Phillips, Acting Director, | http://www.smtl.co.uk/ Surgical Materials Testing Lab, | http://www.worldwidewounds.com/ Princess of Wales Hospital, S Wales | http://www.dressings.org/ Tel/Fax: +44 1656-752820/30 | pete@smtl.co.uk