Solutions for E-mail indexing/filing?

[Guy B. Purcell]

On Aug 6, 2005, at 22:19, 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?


Yes--Mail.app in Mac OS X does this nicely, without the need to  
specially tag your messages.  It indexes the messages as they're read  
from the server, and has a search facility that uses that index.   
Combine that with some rules to stow messages from clients in  
separate folders (either real or virtual) automatically, and I think  
that'd give you pretty much what you want.

-Guy