In years past I tried to adhere to a topical folder hierarchy, moving both receieved and sent messages to the correct folder. Wound up with a lot of folders, and this was lot of extra work. Categorization efforts like this are always imperfect, sometimes copied same msg to multiple folders to increase odds of me finding it in future. But for last 2 yrs now I only have Inbox, "Sent Mail" and Archive folders. Under Archive I have a folder for each preceeding year. The only organization I do is move old msgs(from prior years) to Archive--I do this about once a month or so, only takes a minute or two. What makes this work significantly better than my old approach is Copernic Desktop Search. Finds any old msg instantly, much better than search that's built-in to the email tools, and vastly better than trying to find old msgs based on where I'd put them in a folder hierarchy. Always looking for a better way to do things, but I'm pretty sure this is it as far as email. Mike Good