Using GMail.. Looking for a filing system other than Google Docs...

DropBox, Skydrive, define your own filing system.

Use Microsoft Outlook for sending and receiving mails which comes into your gmail account.

What are you trying to do? If you want to keep a permanent searchable copy of all your email then try Mailstore - it's free for personal use:

http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx

What are you trying to do? If you want to keep a permanent searchable copy of all your email then try Mailstore - it's free for personal use:

http://www.mailstore...store-home.aspx

I want to also be able to create folders to sort the mail,

Outlook, ftw.

I no longer do because I'm semi-retired and email a fraction of a fraction of what I used to use, but if I was to need to again, keeping it locally (provided, of course, you realise you're assuming responsibility for maintaining a backup) beats ANY online option.

Use Thunderbird as the mail client on your PC.

Then you can define your own folders and store the mail

as it comes in from Gmali. or any other service