[Users] Email organization approaches

[Ben Hancock]

Hi Claws Users,

This is not a Claws-specific question, but I figure many on the list
may have good ideas (and strong opinions) about the best ways to
organize email. The common paradigms seem to be:

  (1) Don't. Just archive and search.
  (2) Use folders for specific areas/projects.
  (3) Something in between, with folders for some topics
      and then year-based "Archive" folders for miscellaneous.

There are probably others. I'm currently following something like #3,
but I find it leaves a lot to be desired. I put mailing list mails into
their own folders, and that keeps things sane on that front. I'd like
to get into a rhythm where I can easily grab older emails and export
them as mbox files for offline archiving.

Of course, it's only email, so I should probably just move on with my
life, but I am cursed to obsess about these sorts of things :) I'd
welcome ideas and examples of specific setups. In case it's relevant,
I'm thinking mostly about personal email (i.e. not work).

Cheers,
Ben