Comments on: Pondering “Email Conservation” After Hitting Gmail’s Storage Limit

By: Drease

Drease — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:47:20 +0000

Gmail allows importing email from other accounts, and that’s the way I use it. At one point I had close to 20 email adresses from various organizations, all arriving in the one gmail inbox. All nicely labeled automatically etc.

But imagine yourself leaving one organization… What about those emails?
I don’t want to just delete all mails with the one label, there could be old attachments that I want to look up some day, but there’s no need to just keep them in my 7GB of Gmail space. ExampleMan should be able to download and backup all (and only) the emails received on ExampleMan@MyOldJob.com; creating the possibility to clear up some space and dedicate his 7GB of Gmail goodness to the mails sent to ExampleMan@MyNewJob.com.

I know it should be possible using IMAP, but I just can’t seem to find the right explanation (or, it’s a solution for a different OS). If anyone reading this might know how to do this using Windows, please reply.

Thank you,
Drease

By: GrahamB

GrahamB — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:13:11 +0000

I’m currently spending too many hours assessing my future emailing needs. Yahoo is receiving my considered attention, more so now that I’ve seen their Help page give a process for emptying the Trash bin . . . Just a thought!

By: lin

lin — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:59:12 +0000

I only took yup the gmail account as I was assured I would never run out of space.
I think this should be taken further as a legal application.
the suppliers of this service have not lived up to their claims

By: Google is Evil

Google is Evil — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:35:14 +0000

Some of those tools to find big emails seems sketch, I have way too much personal info to use them. I tried to just buy more space, but Google says they shut down my google checkout account from a misunderstanding long ago (when it first came out, I tried it, didn’t work, now it’s my fault?). Hating Google.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:58:48 +0000

You can use FindBigMail.com to label your big emails into three groups so that you can go through them and delete all the ones you no longer need. You can free up space really quick this way. It uses Google's third party Oauth interface so you do not have to share your password to use it. Don't forget to empty the trash when you're done to get the space back immediately.

By: MS

MS — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:14:31 +0000

You can use http://www.findbigmail.com to label your big emails into three groups so that you can go through them and delete all the ones you no longer need. This can help you keep below your storage limit.

By: WhatTheGoogle

WhatTheGoogle — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:25:37 +0000

Quote: “Needless to say, the problem isn’t unique to Gmail…”
Oh really. How ’bout Implement-The-Basics-First, like SORTING by size which has been around as a familiar, usable, known UI element for 15+ years, and how ’bout WILDCARD keyword searching ie. arro*gant* again, something that has been around for 15+ years in familiar, known, useable apps and operating systems. The list goes on (like turning “off” CV – which should never have -exclusively- replaced a traditional UI to begin with). There are all kinds of “fancy” gmail “add-ons” — IMPLEMENT THE BASICS FIRST.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:47:02 +0000

Interesting read, however I have to ask just one thing – unlimited space or not, why would you keep spam emails anyway? 2500 of them!

By: Raju Krishnan

Raju Krishnan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:42:25 +0000

I have managed to find a work around

1. Create a new Gmail id
2. Keep some space free in your old id by deleting unwanted mails.
3. Forward all incoming messages to the new id using a filter and immediately delete from the new id.
4. Go to your new mail id and – go to settings-Accounts & Import-Send mail as and configure your old gmail id.
5. This way any mail going from your new id will continue to be received by the other party in the old id and when you continue to receive mail in the old id which is automatically forwarded to your new id.
6. For some time it is a problem if you have to refer to some old conversation
7. To overcome this, I keep my old gmail and my new one opened together using 2 different browsers. (IE and Chrome)

Hope this was helpful to some of you.

regards
raju

By: Ranjit

Ranjit — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:55:31 +0000

Thanks Dave!
I finally bought 20 GB extra space from Google. The price factor $5/yr for 20 gig seemed attractive as well…

I did a Thunderbird backup from gmail already, but haven’t been able to get all my mails yet. Somehow it keeps on saying Inbox Full, etc..