it will save an email to the contact record AS LONG AS YOU DONT DELETE IT FROM YOUR INBOX...so as long as you are ok with having an inbox with 10000 messages in it - yes you will have the emails attached to the contact record. No history is kept for a deleted email...there is no attaching/filing of an email...it's basic CRM/Mail 101 stuff but zoho lacks this functionality.

As far as sending email, can anyone enlighten me on how to stop zoho from putting it's "stamp" on my email sent through MY OWN mailserver...What happens is that mail sent through my server but originating from Zoho gets stopped in most spam filters/folders...it's a fact.

As you can see I am pretty frustrated about this software that is suppose to be a Mail / CRM solution but lacks basic Mail / CRM functions. I chose zoho over salesforce - I guess you get what you pay for...