If this is you, here’s a tip.
Don’t go through your past emails one by one.
Go by sender, and put that sender in search. You probably have hundreds or even thousands of mails you can delete in huge chunks because you’ll have tons of mail from sources you can instantly determine won’t have ever sent you anything important. Make sure to unsub/block each sender as you go.
That then just leaves you with the actually important stuff, and your incoming volume will have massively decreased. The whole thing is often doable in a day.
Good tip, I’m off to clean things out. I’m an inbox zero person anyway but I have archived instead of deleted way too many things.
Amateur. Girlfriend’s dad has over 1m. Yahoo actually cut him off, he went over the quota.
The terrifying part is once you get to that point, there are no tools to prune it effectively.
It’s called getting a new email address and calling the old inbox your past life.
[select all]
[delete]
But what about that one time I needed to remind myself of an email from five years ago???
It would be quite rude to delete emails from the prince of Nigeria himself too
I actually do that. Old emails with friends or eBay receipts. eBay deletes your purchase history after a few years for some reason.
Why do you need a receipt from eBay after 5 years? You got the shit, now pretend it never happened like any other shady deal.
Because I wanted to buy a second monitor from that company that buys display panels with dead pixels, cases them and sells them for well below MSRP of the name brands.
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