I’ve found a useful gmail feature when trying to work out how to reply quickly to a ‘first come first served’ email about a wine tasting event that is likely to be very popular.
You can enable the ‘canned response feature in gmail, setup a response ‘yes i’d like to attend the wine tasting next tuesday’ and create a filter so when the wine merchant emailed me my reply went back automagically and immediately. It lets you setup an automatic response when an email is received from a specific sender.
Of course if the wine merchant had sent his email from a different email address from his usual one I would be stuffed 🙂