Manage Watch Lists

[+Silver Horde]

Hope I'm not missing something obvious but how do you put a hold on messages while you are on vacation?

I have an awful lot of watched caches and even after only a w/e not reading my mail I can come back to 30-40 messages.

 

Peregrinus

[+Markwell]

1. Cut them off from the sending source, but that means removing them from your watch list, and then adding them back when you get back. You won't be flooded with the e-mails to weed through, but you also won't see any of the activity on those caches.

2. File them for later reading by using a "filter" or "rule" in your e-mail program. You dump everything with a subject of "Log Watch Notification" (or whatever the text is, I can't remember) into a separate folder for reading when you feel like it. You'll still see the e-mails but they'll be separated out.

3. Find internet access while you're gone and go through them daily like you normally would

 

Markwell

My Geocaching Page

[+martinp13]

I think you have to sleep in that bed you made, at least for the time being. It would be nice to have a way to set "vacation mode", but it doesn't exist right now.

 

For the moment, you might consider setting up your mail program (if possible) to shunt everything from "geocaching.com" to a geocaching-only mail folder. That way it doesn't clutter up your main mail folder, but it's all in one place waiting for you when you get ready to read it.

 

> Martin (Magellan 330)

Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

[Zuckerruebensirup]

Or, if you don't expect to have the time to catch back up with all of the messages when you get back, and you just want to totally shut them off until you get back, you can do similiar to what the two previous notes suggested, and set a filter (or filters) up on your incoming e-mail, and simply have the messages automatically deleted (sent to your trash folder, actually, in most cases).

 

Just don't forget to turn the filters back off once you return.

[+yrium]

Hey Jane!

 

Its a hack, but if you don't like to mess with filters, or have no Idea what a filter is, you could always get a temporary email address at Yahoo or Hotmail and change your geocaching email address to jane@yahoo.com etc... Then when you get back you can change it back and you won't have all those cache notices to go through.

 

--- yrium ---