I would like to setup a simple but effective work-email filter and looking for recommendations and best practices. This is for work email and the mail client is Outlook 2003.

At the moment, I have too many rules setup - some for individual persons, some for a group of people. I bump into email management problem whenever I work on any kind of projects and I'm not sure if I should put that email on the project's folder or the person's folder or both.

I got recommended a really simple rule;

- everything comes to inbox

- if I get Cc'd to something it goes to Inbox - CC (as an FYI)

- Inbox external - for people outside my organization

- Bosses - 3 up

- Archive

Would anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.