What’s Your View on Email?

How are you archiving email? What is your process for attachments — Do you keep them inline, separate them from the email, or another process?

What’s your view?

August 1, 2008 at 10:54 am | Derek

I was just lamenting on how I need a better process for archived email. Right now I simply have a self-designed process for organizing information. It’s great for my personal needs but is in no way scalable across an organization.

I’ll archive attachments within email but also keep files in a separate repository.
August 1, 2008 at 11:05 am | Jennifer

I archive my e-mail in folders I create in Outlook.

If I receive an e-mail with an attachment, I do one of two things. I usually separate them and save them to my network. Occasionally, I save them in my e-mail and refer back to them later.

Hope that helps!
August 1, 2008 at 2:58 pm | Jason

For my personal mail in gmail I use the label features, but with their mail search feature I generally don’t even bother with the labels when hunting for archived mail. I always save attachments separately.

In outlook (work email) I use the folder structure and I treat attachment email the same as any other email. I do sometime save a copy of the attachment to my hard drive, just in case. Usually if i dont need to edit the file, though, I access it as a read-only through Outlook.
August 2, 2008 at 2:59 pm | Casie

Outlook always asks me if I want to archive but I always say no for some reason. Although I lost a bunch of emails a few months back and really wish I would’ve archived them!