Comments on: Annoyances Related to Gmail

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:36:24 +0000

I was looking at mine the other day - normally I just access it through my Mail program, and noticed I was filling up. So I started deleting messages, then had this epiphany, which was just to delete the lot.

I highly recommend it. It keeps all the addresses, and anything *really* important you will remember, or someone will remind you.

*DELETE ALL*

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Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:45:15 +0000

[...] I was exhausted. And I’m glad that I spent the better part of Sunday wrangling a sliver of my aforementioned Gmail archive down to a 100 messages. (I had approximately 1200 from April 1 forward, and left everything before [...]

By: yp

yp — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:09:00 +0000

Ugh, I’m having the same problem. My gmail box is constantly at 99 percent full even when I go through and clean it out AND delete all spam and trash. I agree that it’s the attachments. You can sort for emails with attachments and after I deleted a few hundred of those emails was able to knock the capacity down about 10 percent.

By: Jen Bekman

Jen Bekman — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:00:49 +0000

Oh, it’s all so complicated!

I have a bunch of Gmail accounts already (I had to claim the various usernames I’ve run through during all these years on the internerds.)

I just hate the idea of the toggling between accounts and not having everything all in one place. I will look into this Mailplane of which you speak, Dalton.

By: dalton

dalton — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:41:54 +0000

This is going to sound a little bit crazy, but hold on for a sec. You can sign up for a second Gmail account for free. Then forward all incoming mail from your original account to your new one. You can set up the new account to reply to all messages as if they’re coming from the first account. Not just the “reply-to” address, but the “from” address as well. It’s seamless, and gives you an instant 3 GB.

The only problem is that you’ve got to access your old account for archived messages. It isn’t hard if you’re a Mac user, just use Mailplane to quickly switch between accounts. You could theoretically have an unlimited number of accounts.

By: miss representation

miss representation — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:48:48 +0000

It seems to be rare. I just moved to the Google Apps (they have a 10GB box, tho you gots to pay for it) because of it. When telling people, everyone is amazed to hear I’ve been at 95%+ for months.

It’s not the email ct. I suspect you could hold hundreds of thousands of messages. It’s the attachments that kill you, and the inability to discard attachments without deleting entire threads.

Oh, and if you are wondering, the new mutiple accts feature doesn’t support gmail (you can fwd from gmail to gmail , thought, without picking up any spam).