Mail Folders

One method involves creating a system of mailbox folders for storing read email. The other method involves simply leaving everything in your Inbox and searching for it later. Which method you use probably depends on your personality and how organized your are.

Personally, I more or less switched from mailbox folders to leaving everything in the Inbox once searching speed sped up in Mail. This is evidenced by the fact that I have 2870 read messages in my Inbox.

If you are in the more organized category, setting up Mail folders is very easy:

Click on the + button on the lower left of the main Mail window and choose New Mailbox…

You can create as many mailboxes as you like for different subjects or categories. You can drag them up and down the list and drop folders inside of other folders to create nested folders.

Once you have storage mailboxes set up, drag and drop read messages from your Inbox to your storage mailboxes.

As you are organizing your read email, don't forget the Trash for those emails you know you will never need again.