gmail...?

good to know....well actually not so good, I understand what their idea is, but I would rather be able to clasify them like: important, phone numbers, or stuff like that as I wont remember their subjects to search them....

could I search them by label? if so that would be even better than having folders, how do I label them?

thanks again, Marcelo.

Hit the edit labels link in the green box to the left, make some labels for stuff. Next select some messages you want to have that label, and there's an apply label option in the drop down box at the top. The instructions are a bit basic, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

yes i understand, the only question left that i have is what happens when i select an email and then i hit "archive"

thanks, Marcelo.

It's just hidden from view, unless you select the "All Mail" link. Even if you hit delete, it tends to stick around unless you go into the trash and manually delete it from there.

Part of how Google funds this little venture, and can give going on 3GB of space to everyone, is they use email messages to kind of seed their text ads. Generating a massive list of key words that are repeated often. So they don't want people deleting email, and try to passively encourage you not to.