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Originally Posted by Ellachanted
And I had to cut back on the alerts because my mailbox was being blown up.
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Mailbox management is an art.
In the case of heavy fanfic readers, there's no two ways about it: filters and automatic incoming actions are your friends.
All my fic notices are filtered into a "fic notices" subfolder, and are all autoflagged on delivery. I then go over them manually, and unflag all the uninteresting ones -- new communities or new author stories with uninspiring summaries, etc. Then I go in Calibre and update those stories still flagged. Not all, of course, juste those I'm interested in reading in the forseeable future.
Then, when FFDL had finished updating those, I unflag them in my mail folder. So I know that all the unread notices are those I haven't processed yet, and all the still flagged ones are those I may want to read/update at a later time. All mail not flagged is archived away or deleted.
Yeah, sure, it takes some time; but that's the (low, low) price of a cleanly managed fanfic bookself.
A cleaner way to do that would be a Calibre addon that plugs to your IMAP folders and manages those notices, creating a ReadingList of books to update and a list of URL to fetch, but
that's a project I'm not yet ready to undertake right now ^_^;