[Cialug] Email

[n00b]

yikes. my email i get with the guard only lets me keep ~500KBytes on it at
a time(including the trash). so if i forget to empty the trash i might not
get any new email for awhile.

god bless the lowest bidder.


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Pohl <tom@tcpconsulting.com>
To: cialug@cialug.org
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 14:30:24 -0600
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Email

> Wow and I thought *I* was the only one.
> 
> I started with Eudora at ISU in the mid 90's and migrated all my mail 
> to Outlook in the late 90's and eventually pushed it all onto a little 
> exchange server in the corner of my basement.  Then, with a nifty 
> utility, I moved it to Mail.app on my mac about a year and a half ago!
> 
> Is 4gb a lot? ;) I would think that Google might even suggest a 12 step
> program.
> 
> -Tom
> 
> On Apr 1, 2005, at 2:11 PM, D. Joe Anderson wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:47:57PM -0600, Dave Weis wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Lee wrote:
> >>> So Google is bumping up the available email storage to 2GB
> >>> and will continue to increase it. Does anyone here use that
> >>> much space for "email" or have you seen a users mail box that
> >>> demands that much space?
> >>
> >> I've got about 900 megs from 2001-now. I had a couple more years 
> >> before
> >> that but had a small problem with a raid controller and freed up
> some
> >> space. I also delete the attachments and store them in other 
> >> directories.
> >
> > At home:
> > $ du -s Mail
> > 842440  Mail
> >
> > At work:
> > $ du -s Mail
> > 1096348 Mail
> >
> > I keep a lot of the spam I get, though.  Like Dave, I've had
> > system . . . events . . . that have freed some space over the
> > years.
> >
> > -- 
> > D. Joe Anderson         http://www.etrumeus.com/~deejoe
> > "DRM [...] is to copyright law as a machine gun on
> > a motion detector is to real estate law"  -- Don Marti
> >
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