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For some reason I've always started to get nervous if my inbox starts pushing 100 count. Somewhere around 70 or 80 there's a little tickle whenever I look at the total count displayed on the bottom bar of nPOPuk, the only email program I use. If that goes into the 90's it's time to spend a while sorting things into saveboxes, deleting what's no longer relevant, and replying where necessary. So my inbox is sort of a task list, with the total number giving me a little push to deal with things before they get too old. With roughly 20 real letters oer day (and 50 or so spam to delete) the load isn't too bad. Tends to result in a few smaller sorting sessions per week to deal with more pressing business emails, then my roughly once-per-week major sort and delete session takes a bit longer as I respond to letters from friends and family (who have more patience than clients tend to do).
nPOP didn't used to be so convenient. There was only the one 'SaveBox' besides 'Inbox' so that made me a bit more likely to save email out into folders as TXT files. However convenient that is for archival purposes, it's not quite so intuitive nor as convenient to search through archived text files and respond to folks, or to follow up on an old conversation. The newer versions which allow a lot of folders (actually DAT files, which can easily be read in any good text editor without using an email interface if desired) encourage me to just pile things into categories, then I can archive those as blocks of text in a more readily searchable format than one-file-per-email archiving. nPOPuk offers filters and such, but I tend to cope with things manually, to avoid mistakes or missing an urgent correspondence.
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