[zjj]

- check mail at most once an hour when programming

- keep your mail unread if it requires an action, don't look back at read mails in your inbox (send old inbox mails to some other folder once a week for example)

- try not to keep old mails without actions for too much time... if a mail will have to wait, send it to another folder so that your inbox is always small and easy to check (around 10 unread mails at the end of each day)

- send mails that require an action to a todo folder; reply mails that require an answer immediately before you forget them

works for me

[mahmud]

- check mail at most once an hour when programming

And you will get _nothing_ done. Programming should run at negative nice. Nothing should interrupt it.