People clean out Sent folders? Really? Huh.
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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.
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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.)
I'll move stuff to a sent folder if I want a record on when and to who I sent something, or of the version I sent them. Usually submissions to a client. Otherwise I don't bother with it. But I'm annoyed that our default is now that anything over 30 days gets deleted - being able to grab stuff from there has come in handy any number of occasions.
I can't handle having unread email. If I don't want to read it, then I delete it.
God, never. I get twitchy at the little envelope indicator, or the light on the BB.
I try to keep my inbox in check, but only periodically do. At which point I go through and delete things I should've, and file everything else in folders, and leave the truly pending stuff in my inbox (I never get to inbox zero), mostly down to about inbox 50. What I DON"T do, and know i SHOULD, is go through my sent mail. That's just a big mess.
Granted, I don't have a high volume of email, so I guess that plays a big part. But I don't even think about my Sent folder.
Thanks to all of you, I just categorized, moved and/or deleted close to 1000 emails from my inbox and sent, deleted and junk folders. That still leaves me with a 2100 message, 135 unread inbox, but that's about as good as I've ever been. Time for lunch.
Okay, not really. Time to run home to collect all the items I forgot while dealing with Matilda's early morning epic meltdown and deliver them to their recipients before we get slapped with another epic bill (weird school photo setup, where you get a gigantic envelope crammed with pictures and have 3 weeks to review them, then must return everything you don't want to pay for. DO NOT LIKE. Wanna just check boxes, pay for what we want up front, and not have to worry about taking it all home and bringing it all back again.).
But after that...lunch.