I would like to be able to tell my email client not to process new mail.
Yesterday I was determined to knuckle down and finish a piece of work so I turned my email client and my RSS reader off. I’m a great procrastinator and if I can be interrupted I will.
(43 Folders has an interesting post today on “The frazzled attention of the ‘always on’”)
The problem was this. I needed to keep starting my email client to retrieve information for the piece of work, I had tried to copy it all before I shut the email client down, but I had forgotten some bits. Every time I started the email client it processed all of the waiting email and I just couldn’t stop myself having a look and processing it. I want to be able to tell my email clients (both of them) that I am busy, in the same way as I can my IM clients.
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Graham, luckily I know you work with a remote replica of your mail file and a Lotus Notes client. Simple solution is to use a Location document which is set to be disconnected. You could call this “I’m busy”. Thus allowing you to use Notes without the new emails piling up, they’d simply stay on the server till you are ready for them.
Easy to do:
1. Open names.nsf (your personal address book).
2. Go to the locations view.
3. Copy and paste the location document you normally use.
4. Open the new document and edit it.
5. Change the Location Name to suit you.
6. Change the Location Type to “no connection”.
Hey presto your feature request is available NOW!!
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