I try to discourage the use of filters. The amount of time I've experienced someone not notice an email because they hadnt checked all of the 20 folders their email gets delivered to.
I recommend users leave their mail delivered to their inbox. Once you read it, you file it where it needs to go. If it needs further action, leave it in the inbox. Then the inbox is basically a list of things you need to action. This is the way I've always used email.
I recieve daily status reports from various automated systems that I generally only need to refer to rather than actually read, so those messages are filtered to their own folder because I'm only interested in them when I know I want to see them.
Autosyncing more folders than the inbox is something that I've never seen on any other application or device, and something that I think would encourage poor email practices. That's to say nothing of the increased load on network traffic. |