Solutions for E-mail indexing/filing?

[vraptor at employees.org]

On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Tim Pozar wrote:

> 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.
>

I don't care much for Apple's Mail.app myself, as I use
Thunderbird, but it integrates with Spotlight to do very
quick and complete searching.

=Nadine=