[hnbear]

A friend taught me to create a Smart Folder in Mail to show messages in inbox that contain the string “unsubscribe”.

Then you unsubscribe.

I try to keep inbox zero, so it flags all new email that needs unsubscribing. It’s a very helpful trick.

[Leftium]

1. `unsubscribe` does 80% of the work, but I found another effective filter:

2. "Boring Senders" (like `no-reply`)

Thanks to these two rules:

> Last month I received 1,236 emails, but only 47 emails reached my inbox.

More details: https://blog.leftium.com/2023/11/automatic-inbox-cleanup-wit...

[dbdoskey]

That was very helpful, and I didn't know about the xml filter import. Thank you