Using the 'Archive' mailbox for all archiving - good idea?

[Nubben]

Hi All,

Am trying to simplify my mail archiving and have been toying with the idea of having just one archive mailbox ('Archive') instead of having several, such as one called 'Non-personal' or 'Receipts'.

The idea with the 'Archive'-folder-only approach is that it will be easier to file them away in iOS 8 (with its nifty archive-gesture) but if I would like to read all e-mails from one year but only see my personal e-mail that would be a problem.

Does anyone have only one archive mailbox applying the above rule?

I should say I use iCloud mail and will not change to Gmail for instance.

Many thanks!

Regards.

 

[Jessica Lares]

Do you have a Mac? You could use a Smart Mailbox folder. iCloud.com lets you setup rules to organize stuff into other folders otherwise. If you needed to do like a folder for receipts, you could have it look for dollar signs, "Qty", "tax", among other things.

That way you can use the gesture, but still keep things tidy.

 

[flynz4]

I have 100% of my incoming emails get forwarded (copied) to a Gmail account that I use for archive. This allows me to delete incoming email ruthlessly... because I can always log into my Gmail archive account and use its very powerful search functions.

I sacrifice privacy by letting Google see 100% of my email... but I don't lead that interesting of a life. 😉

I keep almost zero email around. It is almost 100% read & delete. I LOVE having an empty clean mailbox.

/Jim