Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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I not only keep email for ridiculous amounts of time, but I also import them from one computer to the next, one file format to the next.
But recently I upgraded to the most recent Thunderbird and have yet to figure out where it's stashed everything. So maybe I'll break myself of the habit.
I can't get to GIDG because my system blocks streaming media! Stupid filters!
My goal, for my work e-mail, is to keep the inbox under 50 messages with as few as possible unread. I use the flags and color coding a bunch for outstanding issues. I'm horrible about clearing out my sent mail.
We have limits on how much we can store, but if we move messages to personal files, then we can keep a ton.
Working with gmail for my personal e-mail has been such a different experience. No folders is confusing, but I like being able to star messages and I like having conversations kept together.
OK, fine. I just filed a bunch of email.
People clean out Sent folders? Really? Huh.
If an email still has a pending task associated with it, it stays in the inbox with a due-date flag. Anything I need to keep as a record goes into a subfolder. Everything else is deleted almost immediately.
I can't handle having unread email. If I don't want to read it, then I delete it.
People clean out Sent folders? Really? Huh.
Yep. If it's important, I archive it; if it's not, I delete it.
No folders is confusing
Firefox and Chrome both support the Folders4Gmail extension.
People clean out Sent folders?
I used to when I had 100MB of mail storage, back in the dark ages of 3 weeks ago (whence the fact that my entire department started unofficially forwarding everything to gmail.)