Re: Why a PC?
I depends on how you view email; for me, as I mentioned in part 1, it's part of an audit trail of discussions about work and so on, so I do keep it.
I'll take a look at Prayer (though since I use IMAP, it's easy to sync a phone to the same set of mail folders); I've played with Horde in the past, which does the job, but is a big of a big beast to install and set up