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>>>>> Vegard Vesterheim <vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no>:

> ... I find this concept of presorting email into actual folders
> cumbersome, one email message may fit into several different
> folders. Imagine being able to just stuff all your email into one
> large folder, and then having a good search engine to access this.

FWIW opera mail has done this, and google/gmail has done this, and I
never got comfortable with either.

The presorting I do is split mail for mailing lists.  Crossposted emails
end up in the first matching rule and gets followups only for that list.

I don't try to manually sort email later, but I move/expire mail into
archive folders (I back all high-traffic folders with archive folders),
and I would have liked search that spans both the folder and its archive
folder.