{"id":7466,"date":"2008-12-03T15:08:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T15:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/e-mail_self_destruct_flag_needed.html"},"modified":"2008-12-03T15:08:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T15:08:06","slug":"e-mail-self-destruct-flag-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/ip-communications\/e-mail-self-destruct-flag-needed.html","title":{"rendered":"E-mail Self Destruct Flag Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I desperately need an email self-destruct key. You see, I have many emails<br \/>\nwhich trigger ideas in my head. I want to write about them for example. The<br \/>\nproblem is my eyes are bigger than my blogging time allotment which means I<br \/>\nend up with hundreds of emails I want to blog about but don&#8217;t get around to.<br \/>\nI wish I could tag such emails with a self-destruct flag.<br \/>\nThis would be similar to those Mission Impossible movies where the message<br \/>\nblows up &#8212; just a lot cleaner and neater.<br \/>\nThe way it works is as follows. I leave the marked message in my inbox and<br \/>\nset my self-destruct timer to a preset number of days. In my case seven<br \/>\nseems like the ideal number. After that time the email gets deleted or moved<br \/>\nto the deleted folder. In addition, a copy gets placed in my self-destruct<br \/>\nfolder for later access if needed.<br \/>\nThe benefit is my inbox can always be as empty as possible.<br \/>\nI bet there is a way to simulate this concept with flags and rules but I<br \/>\nhaven&#8217;t delved into that pool as of yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I desperately need an email self-destruct key. You see, I have many emails which trigger ideas in my head. I want to write about them for example. The problem is my eyes are bigger than my blogging time allotment which means I end up with hundreds of emails I want to blog about but don&#8217;t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}