[Orgmode] automatically convert email inbox into TODO's?

[Bill Jarrold]

Hi,

Emails in ones inbox can be viewed as TODO's.  org-mode and its agenda mech are 
great for managing to do's.  Thus, does anyone have experience with automatic 
conversion of emails into TODO's?

Email is a pain because I do not know of any way to associate arbitrary levels 
of priorities to my email.  If I can automatically convert my email inbox into 
a set of TODO's maybe I can solve this problem.  With org-mode and the agenda 
mechanism I suspect I have a lot of flexibility with assigning priorities  and 
all sorts of categories....

( I tend to have 1000's of messages in my inbox and the ordering is a mess.  As 
I come up to speed on org mode I have hope that it can handle 1000's of tasks 
well.  )

Any pre-existing solutions for this?  Any comments on the utility of this? 

Thanks,

Bill