How many people eventually abandon a bloated email account?
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I ask this question because I hope I am not the only one. I probably have abandoned at least 6 or 7 email accounts that I used seriously, ie: contacts with friends, internet retail accounts, game accounts, etc.
Is there a solution to prevent this? These accounts just get so bloated, there are emails I wish I could delete but don't want to cause I feel that as soon as I delete it, I'll need it.
Am I the only one? I raise this questions in hopes that someone might have a solution or some programmer/web designer might one day think of a better solution to this issue.
Do you mean they eventually get overwhelmed with spam and become unusable due to receiving like 20 emails a day about your supposed male inadequacies?
When I sign up for stuff I add a tag to each email I sign up for stuff with, for example.
[email]pineapple@tezz.net[/email]
[email]pineapple+fp@tezz.net[/email]
[email]pineapple+twit@tezz.net[/email]
I'm not sure if all mail servers do it but they will all deliver to the same root account. That way if one gets leaked I can just block it, and I know who leaked it.
But yes, In general I have gone through many, many "public" accounts. I still use the same private one though.
Gmail's mail sorting is pretty damn good, combined with their search and the huge amount of space I don't think I will need another private email unless google dies.
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Fun. Several years ago I cleaned out around 40k
Then I went to Hotmail. (I didn't go gmail because I hate inconsistency and I didn't want some crazy email address and the one I always use was taken)
I just use gmail. Practically infinite space and simple searching for emails I actually need.
Only ever done it to my very first email account I set up when I was like 10. My current email has been the same for quite some time. Although I have linked various Gmail accounts to it now for school, work, and personal. And in relation to spam, Gmail does a pretty damn good job at sorting through it.
With Yahoo, I've switched emails several times.
This was all before I had a gmail account though. I've had mine for 6, almost 7 years or so, and I've never had any problems with spam mail getting into my inbox.
I'm using my @msn.com account from 2004-2005 and don't have that problem. Junk never gets in my inbox, and I have a "Keepers" folder for long term email storage and a "Temporary" folder for things that I probably need for a few weeks like eBay buys and Paypal transactions. I also have a BlackBerry, which helps me deal with email sooner.
I do have my domain email, which I use to give out to people. Having a three character domain is awesome.
I just abandoned my email of almost 6 years. 7000 unread messages.
I had a Gmail account for quite a while now, since beta stage, and I've never had much problems with spam
Currently using 1.25GB of email storage
I've never had a problem with bloated email accounts. I've been using a yahoo account for years and only have around 1000 messages overall. I tend to delete most things though, or move them into folders if I think I might need them later.
I guess bloated is relative. I consider anything over 100 bloated. :x
Right now I got 4500 unread messages and 6200 messages total in my hotmail account
I have 2 gmail accounts and 1 custom email. They all feed into my main gmail account and from that one account I can send mail from either one. Purdy sweet.
Abandoned my first yahoo email because of this, then i've been Gmail
No problem on my end. I have a total of 1361 messages, none of them are spam and my account is 3 years old.
Some of them are automessages from forum registrations and stuff, but most are from real people.
I use gmail, but I mainly get bacon(as in not spam, but things from sites I've bought stuff from, etc), and spam is filled with really creepy stuff. Gmail blocks spam really well, although I haven't used the tag trick yet (blah+blah@gmail.com).
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Again, mostly bacon. I'm probably going to filter that stuff tonight.
Nope. I've had one core Hotmail account since I started using Internet regularly, ontop of that I've registered a few extra to deal with stuff I don't want associated with my main account, such as forum registrations or game accounts.
The search feature in Hotmail pretty much makes you able to handle pretty much any amount of mails without strain however. You don't even need to categorize them since you can just search by sender or whatever.
What is this tag thing in Gmail?
I just register everything to one account and use another for private email and stuff.
[QUOTE=Zally13;27251938]What is this tag thing in Gmail?[/QUOTE]
In gmail, you can use your email address on websites with anything like this: [email]yourname+somethingelse@gmail.com[/email], as well as your.name and [email]yo.urname@gmail.com[/email].
The idea is that you can register at a website, say facepunch, with yourname+facepunch, and if a whole shit ton of spam comes to that address, it's trivial to determine where it came from. You can then from there create a filter that blocks anything to that address and such.
I win.
Best part is the spam box auto deletes everything every 30 days
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I just calculated I've got about 80200 Emails in my spam box since I got the thing.
[QUOTE=Justice;27251046]I had this issue with Hotmail, but I've never had a spam problem with GMail, ever. All Spam goes to the Spam box. I think the most spam I ever get is a Staples newsletter every two weeks or so.
Then again, I never sign up for things anywhere unless I need to.[/QUOTE]
Yeah me too i LOVE gmail
I have 4 account for gmail
One for family and gaming
another for gameing stuff
One more for uhhh... sites that may spam me
then one for my website / non-profit
When I was younger I had a different address. Sadly I can no longer use Battlefield 2 and 2142 because both have account directly tied into that old email address for which I no longer remember the password. No recovery is possible either.
Not a big deal, but it is one of the hazards of having users tied to an email address.
I've been using the same email since I was 13 back in '03. I get the weirdest junk email since I didn't have the brain to use an alternate account for that sort thing. At this point I can't be bothered to change 100000 websites to a new email address.
I usually just get 50 spam emails a day from some china men trying to phish my WoW account.
It gets rather annoying sometimes because a few of the emails are actually official ones time to time.
[QUOTE=Tezzanator92;27249902]Do you mean they eventually get overwhelmed with spam and become unusable due to receiving like 20 emails a day about your supposed male inadequacies?
When I sign up for stuff I add a tag to each email I sign up for stuff with, for example.
[email]pineapple@tezz.net[/email]
[email]pineapple+fp@tezz.net[/email]
[email]pineapple+twit@tezz.net[/email]
I'm not sure if all mail servers do it but they will all deliver to the same root account. That way if one gets leaked I can just block it, and I know who leaked it.
But yes, In general I have gone through many, many "public" accounts. I still use the same private one though.
Gmail's mail sorting is pretty damn good, combined with their search and the huge amount of space I don't think I will need another private email unless google dies.[/QUOTE]
You can do the same thing with gmail.
[email]gmailaccount@gmail.com[/email]
[email]gmail.account@gmail.com[/email]
[email]g.mail.acc.ount@gmail.com[/email]
They will all go to the same address etc.
I host my own email and have several domains with catch-all addresses (i.e. [email]anything@site.com[/email]) redirecting to my main account for signing up to dodgy places.
And since I receive email continuously via IMAP on Thunderbird and my phone, nothing goes unread.
I don't use my first 'real' email address anymore because back in high school I needed a Google account to use Gtalk. For whatever reason you could install Gtalk to the computers if you did it in your My Docs.
Besides that, been using the same email since 2003. I've got two alternate ones, a personal/professional and a trashy one I never check.
I keep 3 emails, a personal one, a professional one, and an alternate one for signing up to dodgy things.
I have my own domain name and got myself some free mail forwarding.
I've set it up that every mail my domain name receives forwards to my GMail, that way I know from who, where and what.
eg:
[email]facepunch@domain.com[/email]
[email]youtube@domain.com[/email]
[email]facebook@domain.com[/email]
They all forward to my main GMail account which i've been using for almost 3.5 years now, which is 608MB big.
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