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I’ve been using IMAPCleanse to clean out my list inboxes and have discovered that I get about 500 emails a day from mailing lists. I read no more than ten to twenty mails out of all those, and respond to maybe two of the mails I’ve read.

I want a bayesian filter for my mail that tells me what to read. Priming the filter with interesting mail is going to take time, so to accelerate that I have this list:

• Messages I respond to are interesting to me
• Messages I write are interesting to me
• Responses to those messages are interesting to me
• If I unflag an automatically flagged list it should never be re-flagged

I think the next tool I’m going to write is a tool that flags messages I write, messages I’ve responded to and responses to mails I’ve written. This should be easy to figure out from the \Answered flag, so I won’t have to do too much searching for In-Reply-To and References headers. I should also be able to keep track of auto-flagged messages with IMAP keywords.