Mail files in org

[Charles Howard <incubando@hotmail.co.uk>]

Is it possible to structure a large collection of emails in an org file ? Are there any specific tools for doing this ?

I have used pine for many years but the business of categorizing sensibly into folders the hundreds of mails which 
come each week is out of hand. Googlemail is offering a single file of emails, with (multiple) `tabs' replacing
the functionality of folders. This seems like a great step forward, but I don't like GUIs, and I'm not happy that on 
googlemail it seems not to be possible to download an email to disk with header information. (And I don't want all
my emails permanently on someone else's server.)

Maybe this has been thought of already, but I can't see it anywhere. I've never used mail under emacs (though I've used
emacs for about 12 years). 

What I have in mind is a single text file containing (say) one year's 10^5 emails. I could go through attaching tabs, 
TODO notes, draft replies, rude remarks, tags, ... able to open a specific category ...

If I'm reinventing the wheel, please don't be too harsh. 

Chas
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