[Cialug] Email

[Chris Hilton]

Nevar!!  Never cleanup mail, it's um priceless...



timwilson011@mchsi.com wrote:

>Let's see, that's 39MB on my GMail account, 330MB at work, 295 MB at home, and
>22MB on my Yahoo account.  Grand total, 686MB.  That's not much, is it? :-)  Oh
>I forgot, that doesn't include the mail messages I still have for root on my
>Linux box, and some other messages on Linux, so add another 53MB.  Wow,
>approaching 3/4's of a gig!  Guess I should do some clean-up, huh?
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>--
>Tim W.
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>>Yea I should have specified !=packrat in that question.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org]On Behalf
>>Of David Champion
>>Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 2:43 PM
>>To: cialug@cialug.org
>>Subject: Re: [Cialug] Email
>>
>>
>>Next time someone accuses me of being an email packrat for having about
>>600mb of old email, I can just point you guys and say "I'm just an amateur."
>>
>>-dc
>>
>>Tom Pohl wrote:
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>>>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:
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>>>>On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:47:57PM -0600, Dave Weis wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>>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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