I just got my inbox down to 2 emails. I am pretty anal about not having a clutter of emails in front of me. My co-worker has over 20,000 in his – hasn’t deleted a single one, including spam, since he started working here 4 years ago. I would shoot myself if I logged in to that mess everyday.
I am like you. Ever consider GMail? It is excellent.
No, John, you wouldn’t - but you’d have a lot of sub-folders and filters and some of those sub-folders might work like the regular thrash-folder except you’d be able to sleep at night since you’d know that if it was reallly, really important, you’d be able to retrieve it. My colleagues are like yours. I’m like you and don’t like to save. If it’s important enough I can always retrieve an extra copy from the source or from someone else. I wonder how he negotiated with the IT-department to have access to that much of storage space?
I have about 500 and only because some issues I work on daily can go back 3 months.
I’m like your colleague. I haven’t deleted anything since I started about 2.5 years ago. My inbox isn’t cluttered though. I use the auto archive feature and sub folders to keep things clean and manageable. I also have a copy of all my personal emails since I use gmail.
i have a nice 16000 on the dot. after 1 year 10 months. Now i’ve switch to using subfolders, and it seems to be working out fine, and i’ve been able to to keep the inbox at that nice even number. Eventually i’ll move those 16000 into the subfolders as well, but for now i just have to remember my cut off date and i don’t delete anything, not even spam… although i’m considering it now.
MehdiOchre Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No, John, you wouldn’t - but you’d have a lot of > sub-folders and filters and some of those > sub-folders might work like the regular > thrash-folder except you’d be able to sleep at > night since you’d know that if it was reallly, > really important, you’d be able to retrieve it. > > My colleagues are like yours. I’m like you and > don’t like to save. If it’s important enough I can > always retrieve an extra copy from the source or > from someone else. > > I wonder how he negotiated with the IT-department > to have access to that much of storage space? Actually you are right. I delete 90% of the emails I receive, but for the ones I keep, I have subfolders, sub-subfolders, and sub-sub-subfolders to keep everything organized. The only emails in my inbox are ones I need to address immediately. But if someone asked me to find information on XYZ from a certain date in time, I can find it in about 15 seconds flat. My colleague has to do a massive search on 20,000 emails every time he needs to look for something.
JohnThainsLimoDriver Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Actually you are right. I delete 90% of the emails > I receive, but for the ones I keep, I have > subfolders, sub-subfolders, and sub-sub-subfolders > to keep everything organized. The only emails in > my inbox are ones I need to address immediately. That is exactly how I keep my email. I think it should be a policy. One of our attorneys recently left. Someone in the office was tasked with going through his email and archiving important emails regarding specific deals we were working on. He had an inbox of 5,000 emails, and deleted items of another 5,000. No subfolders, or organization. Glad it was not me that had to go through his crap.
I have over 10,000 e-mails on my Gmail account which I’ve had for about four years, and several hundred saved on my work account. If I have enough storage space to handle the capacity, I don’t delete old mails in case I have a reason to refer to them for posterity, and GMail’s search capabilities make it easy to find stuff. I probably should be more selective about what e-mails I save, but I’ve always been somewhat of an “accumulator.”
There is a difference between having 10,000 emails in your inbox on gmail, and having 10,000 emails with them. I have 6 emails in my inbox. However when I click on “All Mail”, I have a little under 9,000.
work 627 in the inbox (I get down to 5 - 10 once a month) 18,932 in the archive gmail: 2989
Dermot81 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I’m like your colleague. I haven’t deleted > anything since I started about 2.5 years ago. My > inbox isn’t cluttered though. I use the auto > archive feature and sub folders to keep things > clean and manageable. > > I also have a copy of all my personal emails since > I use gmail. same for me
Have about 3000 since september 08 when I set up the archive folder. I use google desktop to retrieve old emails.
Same as most here…I keep my ‘inbox’ as a place to keep open items. Once the task is complete the email gets filed into a sub folder. I keep all emails until they are auto-deleted and I save important ones to the harddrive.
I should have thousands, but I make it a point to delete junk daily and organize everything right when I walk into the office.
I walked in today to 16 new emails after getting down to 2 last night. Kind of annoying especially when 12 of them were spam.
JohnThainsLimoDriver Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I walked in today to 16 new emails after getting > down to 2 last night. Kind of annoying especially > when 12 of them were spam. I get over 300+ emails daily
I get about 500 daily but most of them get filtered directly into my spam folder. The 12 that made it through were failures on the spam filter’s part.
JohnThainsLimoDriver Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I get about 500 daily but most of them get > filtered directly into my spam folder. The 12 that > made it through were failures on the spam filter’s > part. Which begs the question…are they all actually spam or do they just go to spam regardless of content? Or are you trying to say that all email is spam (very zen)?
Email was a bad idea. I used to get 80 stinkin’ emails a day all requiring some sort of action on my part. Dood what is up with the Bear Stearns bonds, dood how large is our position, dood what is the percentage loss ITD, YTD, day to date, dood are you gonna sell those WaMu bonds, dood what is up with that CDO Fitch says it is a AA WTF? Now I get like one day, it rules.