Solutions for E-mail indexing/filing?

[Roy S. Rapoport]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 10:19:56PM -0700, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
> 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?

Yeah.

It's called gmail.

I'm not crazy about using gmail for actually sending and receiving email,
but I forward all my personal email (and all my history) to a gmail account
and use it for indexing and searching, since it's way faster than doing it
on my own server.

-roy