Petros <Petros.Listig@fdrive.com.au> wrote:
Sometimes I wish I have a "pinboard" for "spheres" (school, club, family..) where I can pin mails and give them short description "School camp health check form, has to be handed in 15/5/13") and a link to the original mail.
Does something like this exist?
There is interesting work taking place in the Linux community on the Notmuch mail system: http://www.notmuchmail.org/ The underlying concept is that each message can be assigned multiple labels, manually or automatically via scripts. You can search for messages by various criteria, including label, headers and body text. No mail is ever deleted. There are user interfaces for Emacs, Vi and probably other environments by now. The way I have always handled this is to use Procmail to filter incoming mail as it arrives and to place it in various mail folders. There are lots of tutorials on the Web explaining how to use Procmail effectively. A newer (and arguably better) tool in this category is Maildrop, but there is less community support and documentation for it. Mutt is rather good at, for example, displaying only messages that match a search (this is the limit command). Tagging works in the same manner, and you can copy or save all tagged messages, for example. Internet mail has been around for decades, which is why there are very well developed tools for dealing with large amounts of it efficiently.