Sounds like a good reason to not have a gmail account if you ask me. Is there really any inherent benefit of having a gmail account over having some other email service? My student account for my university uses gmail and so far it doesn't seem to have any benefits or features that make it seem any better or worse than my personal Yahoo! email.
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Sounds like a good reason to not have a gmail account if you ask me. Is there really any inherent benefit of having a gmail account over having some other email service? My student account for my university uses gmail and so far it doesn't seem to have any benefits or features that make it seem any better or worse than my personal Yahoo! email.
Well, the ads aren't going to do any good, considering all I ever do is keep deleting them without looking at them.
As for what works fine for you, that's what works for you. I get email notifications from several forums, numerous social media sites, the eBay sellers I'm following, Freecycle and other Yahoo groups that I either moderate or admin, I'm part of an email group that would function a hell of a lot better on a forum, but most of the others are such damn luddites about it ("forums are too HAAARD!" they wail, and they're scared to death that the moderator of Care2 can spy on them if they join a forum), emails to do with my offline life, and much more. It's necessary to keep them separated at least a little (I remember what it was like before the "category" system was created; it was a nightmare) or I'd spend all day just dealing with that.
Having a Gmail account makes my life easier than not having one. I've still got a Yahoo account, as that's necessary for participating in the Yahoo groups.
Not particularly. I forward all my gmail stuff to outlook, I'm too lazy to change addresses.
You can use labels for that.
I do use labels for many of them, but it's just untenable to expect everything to go to the same category.
Easiest to move what I need to another one, unsubscribe from the rest, and disable the category.
Works fine for me.
And how many emails do you get each day that aren't immediately deleted?
Why would I delete emails?
So you've kept every email you ever received? I'm a packrat, but even I don't keep absolutely everything!
gay_Aleks
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Don't most email services auto-delete mails after some time?
Why should they? I've got stuff in my Gmail account dating back to at least 2008 or 2007.
Stuff in the trash and spam folders get automatically deleted after 30 days, though, if you don't do it manually.
Stuff in the trash and spam folders get automatically deleted after 30 days, though, if you don't do it manually.
Yes, other than spam. gmail account currently at 30,046, using 2.7 GB of 17 GB.
11,000 emails with 9GB checking in here.
I also never delete emails. Spam filters these days are pretty robust. On gmail (most used private email) the inbox system filters out most of the stuff I don't care about.
"Marked as read" is like deleted for my brain. No need for full removal... might need it later. My inbox is a repository of random and sometimes useful information.
I also never delete emails. Spam filters these days are pretty robust. On gmail (most used private email) the inbox system filters out most of the stuff I don't care about.
"Marked as read" is like deleted for my brain. No need for full removal... might need it later. My inbox is a repository of random and sometimes useful information.
I just found stuff from 2006. I did some housecleaning in the Promotions section, though, and got rid of about 1000 messages.
Mise
isle of lucy
You guys should give Inbox a go. https://inbox.google.com/
There are more categories, and the categories are more useful. You can dismiss all the stupid marketing emails from Amazon, ebay etc in one swipe/click. And you can "pin" the useful stuff so that it stays on the top of your inbox. It's pretty cool, and much better than "mark as unread".
There are more categories, and the categories are more useful. You can dismiss all the stupid marketing emails from Amazon, ebay etc in one swipe/click. And you can "pin" the useful stuff so that it stays on the top of your inbox. It's pretty cool, and much better than "mark as unread".
I've tried it. I don't like it.
Problem with Inbox is how closed and non cross-platform it is.
I'm not really interested in any service I can't use with a client of my choice.
Mise
isle of lucy
Well Inbox is really a client itself, rather than an email service.
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