How full is your Inbox?
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At home I store them all and I use your same blame game mentality. However, here at company X a new edict has just been issued limiting the size of the mailbox to 2 gigs. Two gigs you say? No big deal you say? Well when every sends every email as full HTML with cute little embedded images ... you get the picture. So now I no longer have the great power of memory. I offered the Email team a quarter to pay for my extra storage but that almost got me fired, literally, I did it and got punished : )
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I offered the Email team a quarter to pay for my extra storage but that almost got me fired, literally, I did it and got punished : )
:thumbsup: Beautiful. That reminds me, I have a health and safety rant brewing after a new "HEALTH & SAFETY ALERT" that is on my desk this morning I have to sign.
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Many, many years ago I gave up deleting any emails to do with work. This way I can prove I am right and that everyone else is a fool who refused to listen to me. I have many, many folders within my Inbox for various systems, projects, people, and so on. However, aside from automated emails such as system alerts and so on nothing gets filtered by content, anything sent to me by a person goes into my Inbox, and stays there until I have dealt with it or the issue it pertains to. Trouble is so many bloody emails come in each day, and I do not move as soon as something is finished, and if I'm not careful I find myself with almost 1000 messages in my Inbox. This morning I was around 500, spent some time moving everything that has been dealt with, and I am not at 396 and yet to move out everything from last week. How do your run yours? Let it grow, neat and tidy, delete everything that isn't marked as urgent?
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Man, for god's sake Filter! I have many sub-directories where everything goes. Nothing is ever thrown. Even things I have no further need for go into a file for Things I have no further need for! Ok, any crapola that comes in is dismissed to the ether and added to the Bandit List, all the rest is archived.
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Many, many years ago I gave up deleting any emails to do with work. This way I can prove I am right and that everyone else is a fool who refused to listen to me. I have many, many folders within my Inbox for various systems, projects, people, and so on. However, aside from automated emails such as system alerts and so on nothing gets filtered by content, anything sent to me by a person goes into my Inbox, and stays there until I have dealt with it or the issue it pertains to. Trouble is so many bloody emails come in each day, and I do not move as soon as something is finished, and if I'm not careful I find myself with almost 1000 messages in my Inbox. This morning I was around 500, spent some time moving everything that has been dealt with, and I am not at 396 and yet to move out everything from last week. How do your run yours? Let it grow, neat and tidy, delete everything that isn't marked as urgent?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
I almost never delete a non spam email message. I have 100s of thousands of emails in my gmail box and also 10s of thousands of emails in my work outlook box although all of this at work email is stored on the local machine since they give us less than 250MB of total mail space. Why do I have 100s of thousands of emails on gmail surely I am not that popular... The main reason is I am signed up to over 20 email lists (os and programming) with the largest being the linux kernel mailing list. This subfolder currently has 150 thousand emails.
John
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I clear mine down fairly regularly, they nagged at me. Nagy claimed right from the start he was going to let his grow for ever. I wonder if anyone can beat 6210 6211
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I have not touched them, but have only managed 3,367.
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Many, many years ago I gave up deleting any emails to do with work. This way I can prove I am right and that everyone else is a fool who refused to listen to me. I have many, many folders within my Inbox for various systems, projects, people, and so on. However, aside from automated emails such as system alerts and so on nothing gets filtered by content, anything sent to me by a person goes into my Inbox, and stays there until I have dealt with it or the issue it pertains to. Trouble is so many bloody emails come in each day, and I do not move as soon as something is finished, and if I'm not careful I find myself with almost 1000 messages in my Inbox. This morning I was around 500, spent some time moving everything that has been dealt with, and I am not at 396 and yet to move out everything from last week. How do your run yours? Let it grow, neat and tidy, delete everything that isn't marked as urgent?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
I receive regular e-mails from my employer about various events at their facilities, special offers, etc. Those are typically deleted right away, as they do not apply to me 97% of the time. But I also communicate with various individuals throughout the company since my job actually covers a vast amount of responsibility. I also communicate regularly with a few vendors. But how is it setup? All of the non-specific e-mails (company offers, event notifications, etc.) go to my inbox. Everyone who I communicate with occasionally but not too often, they go to the inbox and stay. But everyone who I communicate with quite often, I have folders for all of them, as well as for specific projects. And I have many rules enabled in Outlook. They all filter e-mails to their corresponding folders. The oldest message in my inbox is from December 2011. However, I was given a company e-mail not long before that, if I remember correctly. But I in all, I have a few thousand e-mails spanning all of my folders.
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Many, many years ago I gave up deleting any emails to do with work. This way I can prove I am right and that everyone else is a fool who refused to listen to me. I have many, many folders within my Inbox for various systems, projects, people, and so on. However, aside from automated emails such as system alerts and so on nothing gets filtered by content, anything sent to me by a person goes into my Inbox, and stays there until I have dealt with it or the issue it pertains to. Trouble is so many bloody emails come in each day, and I do not move as soon as something is finished, and if I'm not careful I find myself with almost 1000 messages in my Inbox. This morning I was around 500, spent some time moving everything that has been dealt with, and I am not at 396 and yet to move out everything from last week. How do your run yours? Let it grow, neat and tidy, delete everything that isn't marked as urgent?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird and I don't need to ever delete mails because with the Expression Search Add-on[^] I can find any email within seconds, it searches through all my mail accounts (unified inbox) in lightning speed. I don't delete emails, ever. Not even spam, there's a spam folder for that. I used to start with a fresh inbox every 1st of January, but stopped doing that about two years (edit, wow, time flies) five years ago and now my Inbox (unified from 6 email accounts) is at 3136 mails. EDIT: Sorry, that's 3136 unread mails. :rolleyes: Looks like the total number is 34,313 I love Thunderbird
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Many, many years ago I gave up deleting any emails to do with work. This way I can prove I am right and that everyone else is a fool who refused to listen to me. I have many, many folders within my Inbox for various systems, projects, people, and so on. However, aside from automated emails such as system alerts and so on nothing gets filtered by content, anything sent to me by a person goes into my Inbox, and stays there until I have dealt with it or the issue it pertains to. Trouble is so many bloody emails come in each day, and I do not move as soon as something is finished, and if I'm not careful I find myself with almost 1000 messages in my Inbox. This morning I was around 500, spent some time moving everything that has been dealt with, and I am not at 396 and yet to move out everything from last week. How do your run yours? Let it grow, neat and tidy, delete everything that isn't marked as urgent?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
Outlook has a really nice feature that moves old inbox content to an archive folder. If I were to print out the content of that archive folder, Europe would probably sink under the weight of it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Many, many years ago I gave up deleting any emails to do with work. This way I can prove I am right and that everyone else is a fool who refused to listen to me. I have many, many folders within my Inbox for various systems, projects, people, and so on. However, aside from automated emails such as system alerts and so on nothing gets filtered by content, anything sent to me by a person goes into my Inbox, and stays there until I have dealt with it or the issue it pertains to. Trouble is so many bloody emails come in each day, and I do not move as soon as something is finished, and if I'm not careful I find myself with almost 1000 messages in my Inbox. This morning I was around 500, spent some time moving everything that has been dealt with, and I am not at 396 and yet to move out everything from last week. How do your run yours? Let it grow, neat and tidy, delete everything that isn't marked as urgent?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
I have 33 11 in my inbox But I have many folders which emails not dealt with remain unread, if I'm dealing with them then they get flagged so that they appear in my task list.
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Many, many years ago I gave up deleting any emails to do with work. This way I can prove I am right and that everyone else is a fool who refused to listen to me. I have many, many folders within my Inbox for various systems, projects, people, and so on. However, aside from automated emails such as system alerts and so on nothing gets filtered by content, anything sent to me by a person goes into my Inbox, and stays there until I have dealt with it or the issue it pertains to. Trouble is so many bloody emails come in each day, and I do not move as soon as something is finished, and if I'm not careful I find myself with almost 1000 messages in my Inbox. This morning I was around 500, spent some time moving everything that has been dealt with, and I am not at 396 and yet to move out everything from last week. How do your run yours? Let it grow, neat and tidy, delete everything that isn't marked as urgent?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
Currently I have seven emails in my inbox.
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Good grief man! That's less than 5 a day! Do you never receive spam? :omg: (And if you don't, how the Elephant did you manage that?)
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
OriginalGriff wrote:
Good grief man! That's less than 5 a day! Do you never receive spam? :OMG:
Now and then; about one message a month.
OriginalGriff wrote:
(And if you don't, how the Elephant did you manage that?)
Never used it to register software, but am using it here. Installed the MVPS-host file - I know it's not an email-filter, but limiting the pages that can be rendered in the browser did have an impact on the crap I receive. Also blocked FB on the entire network. There's a gmail-account for those who want to spam me; I don't mind seeing "relevant ads" there. Private mail goes to the private account. No ads, no tracking.
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Let it grow - I have rules (like you I suspect) to move things to the appropriate folders, but I only delete the obvious cr@p - I have a "junk" box I review each week and either ignore or modify rules as needed, and a deleted box which I look at periodically and has an auto expiry of one month. All other folders are allowed to grow, and are archived at six monthly intervals, and the archives go off to backup storage. Currently, outlook says I have 14,621 items in it's memory... Out of interest, how many CP notifications do you have in the top right corner? I have 6210 at present...
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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how many CP notifications do you have in the top right corner? I have 6210 at present
My OCD won't allow me to have any. I have to delete them when I see them.
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Many, many years ago I gave up deleting any emails to do with work. This way I can prove I am right and that everyone else is a fool who refused to listen to me. I have many, many folders within my Inbox for various systems, projects, people, and so on. However, aside from automated emails such as system alerts and so on nothing gets filtered by content, anything sent to me by a person goes into my Inbox, and stays there until I have dealt with it or the issue it pertains to. Trouble is so many bloody emails come in each day, and I do not move as soon as something is finished, and if I'm not careful I find myself with almost 1000 messages in my Inbox. This morning I was around 500, spent some time moving everything that has been dealt with, and I am not at 396 and yet to move out everything from last week. How do your run yours? Let it grow, neat and tidy, delete everything that isn't marked as urgent?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
I organize mine much the same way, with the following difference. I treat my InBox as the 'hot list' and at least look at messages as soon as they arrive. I've found the key to keeping my InBox small is to deal with the nonsense, ego spam, and worthless crap as quickly as possible. Those from outside companies can usually be deleted based on the subject line alone. In-house messages sent to the entire company can be skimmed and deleted after a few seconds. Only messages from the bug system and my direct coworkers get significant attention. Messages for issues that will take significant time get moved to my 'to-do' list and then archived. All others, once I deal with a message and respond to it, it gets moved to a folder and archived. The end result is that my InBox usually has less than a dozen messages in it.
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Many, many years ago I gave up deleting any emails to do with work. This way I can prove I am right and that everyone else is a fool who refused to listen to me. I have many, many folders within my Inbox for various systems, projects, people, and so on. However, aside from automated emails such as system alerts and so on nothing gets filtered by content, anything sent to me by a person goes into my Inbox, and stays there until I have dealt with it or the issue it pertains to. Trouble is so many bloody emails come in each day, and I do not move as soon as something is finished, and if I'm not careful I find myself with almost 1000 messages in my Inbox. This morning I was around 500, spent some time moving everything that has been dealt with, and I am not at 396 and yet to move out everything from last week. How do your run yours? Let it grow, neat and tidy, delete everything that isn't marked as urgent?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
Not including automated alerts 19,941 since 04/22/2012. I archive things about once a year (having that archive has saved me a number of times)
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Many, many years ago I gave up deleting any emails to do with work. This way I can prove I am right and that everyone else is a fool who refused to listen to me. I have many, many folders within my Inbox for various systems, projects, people, and so on. However, aside from automated emails such as system alerts and so on nothing gets filtered by content, anything sent to me by a person goes into my Inbox, and stays there until I have dealt with it or the issue it pertains to. Trouble is so many bloody emails come in each day, and I do not move as soon as something is finished, and if I'm not careful I find myself with almost 1000 messages in my Inbox. This morning I was around 500, spent some time moving everything that has been dealt with, and I am not at 396 and yet to move out everything from last week. How do your run yours? Let it grow, neat and tidy, delete everything that isn't marked as urgent?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
Currently only ~110. And that's with absolutely no active cleaning up. For 12 years. Of course, our IT team has an extremely aggressive delete policy that can't be altered except with director approval. Us peons are only allowed 60 days worth of email. Anything older is auto-deleted. Not archived. Deleted. The reason for such draconian policies? Lawsuits. If you can walk up to a judge and say "You honor, we've had this policy for ten years. So no, I can't comply with your order to recover an email from 6 months ago", they tend to let it slide.
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At home I store them all and I use your same blame game mentality. However, here at company X a new edict has just been issued limiting the size of the mailbox to 2 gigs. Two gigs you say? No big deal you say? Well when every sends every email as full HTML with cute little embedded images ... you get the picture. So now I no longer have the great power of memory. I offered the Email team a quarter to pay for my extra storage but that almost got me fired, literally, I did it and got punished : )
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost "All users always want Excel" --Ennis Lynch
I have a two year date "window" imposed...on the Exchange server. I chose to just move messages to my local storage instead. No fuss.
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I have a two year date "window" imposed...on the Exchange server. I chose to just move messages to my local storage instead. No fuss.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
Disabled by policy.
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Disabled by policy.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost "All users always want Excel" --Ennis Lynch
What specifically is disabled? I just asked our Exchange admin and he was not familiar with any policy that could be created on the Exchange Server that would prohibit you from moving messages to your local Personal Folder. Maybe there's a "hidden" feature that he is not familiar with.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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Many, many years ago I gave up deleting any emails to do with work. This way I can prove I am right and that everyone else is a fool who refused to listen to me. I have many, many folders within my Inbox for various systems, projects, people, and so on. However, aside from automated emails such as system alerts and so on nothing gets filtered by content, anything sent to me by a person goes into my Inbox, and stays there until I have dealt with it or the issue it pertains to. Trouble is so many bloody emails come in each day, and I do not move as soon as something is finished, and if I'm not careful I find myself with almost 1000 messages in my Inbox. This morning I was around 500, spent some time moving everything that has been dealt with, and I am not at 396 and yet to move out everything from last week. How do your run yours? Let it grow, neat and tidy, delete everything that isn't marked as urgent?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
Try the program in my sign. It let you dynamically classify your e-mails by constructing persistable filter expressions of any complexity and sort them as you need. Give it a try, you may like it if you have such a problem ...
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Many, many years ago I gave up deleting any emails to do with work. This way I can prove I am right and that everyone else is a fool who refused to listen to me. I have many, many folders within my Inbox for various systems, projects, people, and so on. However, aside from automated emails such as system alerts and so on nothing gets filtered by content, anything sent to me by a person goes into my Inbox, and stays there until I have dealt with it or the issue it pertains to. Trouble is so many bloody emails come in each day, and I do not move as soon as something is finished, and if I'm not careful I find myself with almost 1000 messages in my Inbox. This morning I was around 500, spent some time moving everything that has been dealt with, and I am not at 396 and yet to move out everything from last week. How do your run yours? Let it grow, neat and tidy, delete everything that isn't marked as urgent?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
I have 9,900 in the Inbox at the moment. Spam gets a Block Sender designation immediately; other stuff gets categorized and assigned a rule if it's something related to an interesting subject and I care enough to make a folder. Everything else accumulates until 1) Outlook crashes, or 2) I get a new computer. I expect either to happen sometime soon.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
how many CP notifications do you have in the top right corner? I have 6210 at present
My OCD won't allow me to have any. I have to delete them when I see them.
I was brought up to respect my elders. I don't respect many people nowadays.
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