That's overkill - just use Activities on the Contacts form.

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>I believe the best way to accomplish this is to use Business Contact
>Manager which comes with some versions of Office
>
>> is it possible to attache both inbound and outbound e-mails to a specific
>> contact so as to create a history with the complete message?