The following suggestions are offered to help you deal with e-mail in an efficient way.
Individual personalities are readily apparent in e-mail, as with any form of communication.
These points are only guidelines, but they are developed from years of depending on e-mail as a vital medium. Use the phone or meet in person to exchange urgent information. Use autosort features, if available. Be specific about what you are responding to, i.e. use the editor and be judicious about which prior messages to include. Be assertive in responses.