Solutions for E-mail indexing/filing?

Sun Aug 7 08:56:26 PDT 2005

Michael T. Halligan wrote:
> Dealing with hundreds of clients, friends, vendors, etc, I'm starting to 
> find it rather annoying to only have part
> of a conversation in any one sub-folder, or remembering a conversation 
> thread, but not necessarily a subject line, and having
> to wade through dozens/hundreds of e-mails to look it up.
> 
> What would be very ideal, would be a system where, when I file an e-mail 
> into a subfolder, I can also add a tag to that e-mail, and have
> that e-mail indexed into a database of sorts.. I can then put a 
> description on that tag, and associate it to a customer, project, etc.
> 
> Has anybody come accross something like this?

I found that Thunderbird has some basic but very nice search features. 
It searches on subject, sender or the whole message. Certainly it won't 
be as quick as gmail, but it does the job for me in helping me group my 
mail into "project" folders or looking up a thread I need to reference.

Tim
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