Are you an email pack-rat ?
 

How many of us horde our email? Personally, I have email going back to January of 2000. I have a set of rules that distributes the email into it's own folders, and leave it there. It's not like they take up alot of space or anything...

And I've been pretty happy I've done this. There have been several times I've gone back and pulled something out of an email I got way back when ...

Am I the only one who's obsessive about this?

The only email I've ever saved is a bunch from last year when I sold a lot of expensive items on auction sites, and I held them to about the time when they could no longer do a bullshit credit-card chargeback, then I deleted them. Other than that my inbox is bare, but I don't do alot of mail between friends anyway. And I'm a student so theres no mass work email :P

I save most of my emails. I also have a bunch of filters set up depending on who sends me the email.

I have a crap load of emails going all over the place. My hotmail account is now clogged with 1.7 megs of old emails.
Luckily, I found a new free email service that gives me 12 meg storage and 2 meg transfers.
muhahaha

I save all the email I get, save for spam of course.

Long live gmx email!

I run an email server at work, I hate email pack rats, because they leave their email on the server, and I am not allowed to limit the size because management wants unlimited space on their email boxes. I argue with people daily about this.

I have a spare machine I use for email backup...I've worked on customers computers that were in excess fo 3gigs of saved email.....its amazing sometimes what people will save.

You need to check out <a href="http://www.caelo.com/">Neo</a> it lets you organize your email much better then outlook. If you have seen the beta of the next version of Outlook they stole most of the ideas from this product.

Glad to know Microsofdt doesn't treat Outlook any differently than its other products :rolleyes: Of course, imitation is the highest form of flattery and I really have nothing wrong with them getting ideas from other places - just bugs me when they claim them as their own (which they almost always do).

Anyways, I have over 500 e-mails in my account. All read. On day I should really clean that out.

I'd have a ton more but every now and then I accidentally wipe them out :p ;)

I keep only important stuff (recipts, invoices, password stuff) But I got it back to '97 :)


Pack rat, yup thats me.

I love my email

I am so pleased that I have just gotten fetchmail setup to collect my three different email inboxs SquirrelMail setup to display it (webmail based - I like that I can acccess all my email from wherever I am and whichever computer I want (yes it does work in lynx))

It also has spamassasin setup to kill just about all spam

So I think I have the perfect email setup

And yes - I plan to keep all my email forever - I have a huge amount of folders/filters/highlights

yup! :)

Only stuff I delete is spam.

I don't save much. About 97% of my email is deleted after a few days. No need to save it all.

heh, i have emails just hanging around from 1999 just cuz im too lazy to delete them.

my hotmail account has been OVERFOLWING for a year now. i never delete stuff. for some reason i feel "safer" by keeping every damn email i get. maybe i should delete them all.....

I was quite the email pack-rat until I switched over to PocoMail (from Outlook Express).

Upon switching over, I only imported the most important emails I had in Outlook, which was 25-50.

Yet already I am starting to save emails anew at an alarming rate. :)

I hoarde too much mail. I'm subscribed to many mailing lists, some of which are very high traffic.

dave@earth:~/Mail$ du -sh .
316M .

That's since my last cleanup in about May 2002.

i save it all: inbox, deleted, sent, everything. i have just over 6 years of it saved. there are many times when i have gone back and found just what i needed. it is multiple files and i back it up monthly. it now takes 3 cds (i do save all the joke mpegs.

I save it ALL muahahaha

Spam goes out as fast as it gets in though.

I usually keep all my e-mails because I am too lazy to go back and delete the useless ones. I also delete spam as soon as it comes in though, just like most people.

Amen, I am sure my corp. has TERABYTES of useless mail stored on file servers. I have very similar arguments with people.

Me "So please tell me why you think you needed ALL the restaurant menus from 1999"
Them "Because I don't know how to turn the rule off in outlook"
Me thinks how did this person get to be FVP or whatever.

Myself of course keep mail for six months for CYA purposes and then purge to folder for archiving (read deletion).
Personal mail is different usually gets purged every couple of weeks or so unless it has some serious relevance.

I pretty much save everything too. Everything except the emailed Powerball lottery results reminding me that, once again, I did not win the jackpot. Who needs that kind of aggravation?

I use procmail to filter my mail to several different mailboxes depending on source etc. The great thing is, it saves each copy into a backup folder's mailboxes too (so I can freely trim the mailboxes I actually read on a frequent basis).

At this point I think I've got mail back to about March 1999, totaling about 1GB, >300,000 messages (the majority are pretty small), etc. etc.. ;)

I have email going back to my first days on the net, which would be, like 1997. I just archive on occasion so it doesn't slow things down. It has actually been a big help. There have been a coupel times when I needed to look up when I ordered something or when I first registered with a website. It is also nice to have a record of the people I was getting to know online back then.