View Poll Results: How long do you keep your emails for?

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  • I read them, then delete them..

    5 21.74%
  • Until my inbox takes forever to load..

    4 17.39%
  • Less than a year

    1 4.35%
  • 1 to 3 years

    4 17.39%
  • 3+ years

    2 8.70%
  • 3+ years (I have every email I have ever sent!)

    7 30.43%
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Thread: Keeping emails

  1. #1
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    Arrow Keeping emails

    Just curious.... How long does everyone keep their emails for?

    Personally, I have every email I have ever sent archived (from December 1997). My Eudora directory takes up about 250MB.
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  2. #2
    I keep them as long as they are necessary. If its account/login info etc It goes in the saved folder, If its a confirmation code that a forum or newsletter sends me I delete it. It all depends what the email really is Sometimes a good joke email will last along time. Until my box turns into a file cabinet then I go through an clean a bunch out.
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  3. #3
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    I try to keep everything. This has converted over to keeping everything that's not spam.

    Unfortunately, I lost a bunch due to IBM selling crappy hard drives.
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    Read » Reply if needed » Delete
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  5. #5
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    I keep everything, including junk, and I have been doing so for about 4 years.

  6. #6
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    If I kept all my junk... jeepers... lessee...

    1000 spam x 5k average size = 5 MB a day... wow. That would add up quickly.
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  7. #7
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    Originally posted by secludo
    I keep everything, including junk, and I have been doing so for about 4 years.
    I guess I lied above. I don't keep any junk. It goes straight to my junk box, and then to /dev/incinerator

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  8. #8
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    Oh. My total size of mailboxes:

    629 MB (659,739,670 bytes)

    Someone REALLY needs to make a seperate archival system for mail... most mail progs themselves are very, very slow. A dedicated program for browsing mail 'archives' would be awesome.
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  9. #9
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    Originally posted by Hoobastank68
    Read � Reply if needed � Delete
    Yup! ^^^^




    Why in the world would anyone keep every email they've ever written? For what purpose? Paranoia?
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  10. #10
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    198 Megs of current email (back thru mid 2001) everything older that I still have is in 3 diff. archive folders dating back to Nov. of 1997 when I first started saving (got online aug 1997)


    I have backups from when I tried eudora for about 6 months
    More from when I was stupid and used incredamail (you cannot convert these emails over to any other format from what I can see)
    Even more that are Netscape (prolly 4.x version) emails

    Looks to be around 900 megs in saved emails. All junk mail was discarded of course.


    Though I just found out that I have all my icq logs dating back from 8/97. What good they will do me other than proving to someone that they indeed said something I don't know.

    Oh wow, I got a bunch of old junk in this folder (off to rummage thru my findings)
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  11. #11
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    I've got ... (checking) 502 megs total of outlook pst goodness. The 'archiving' thing is the only reason I keep that program.

    I wish there were a better way to keep the archives. If anyone knows a (preferrably) open standard that these can be archived in, let me know. I'm a packrat, and keep everything.

    Spam gets tossed in the bitbucket, as does webhostingtalk.com and other forum thread notifications. If I didn't do that it'd be way bigger...
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  12. #12
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    Originally posted by gina_TVI

    Why in the world would anyone keep every email they've ever written? For what purpose? Paranoia?
    Never know when something's gonna be useful I've only went back and looked a few times, but those times that I needed it... I was glad it was there.
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  13. #13
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    Originally posted by thedavid
    Never know when something's gonna be useful I've only went back and looked a few times, but those times that I needed it... I was glad it was there.

    Exactely why I have mine. I guess I should back all that crap up on dvdr now. Got it on various backup cds all around, time to cut down on the amount of media I have and just convert all backup stuff to dvd.

    On that note, does anyone know of any good software that will let you backup straight to DVDR ? I have drive image pro 2002 and I love it. Backup straight to CDR usually but dvdr would be nicer and a bit less amount of discs.
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  14. #14
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    Most of my mail gets read and deleted.
    The important ones stay forever.

  15. #15
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    I can see deleting mail you read, but I think most people would at least keep their outbox for a long time (seeing as there's a lot less)
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  16. #16
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    outbox? Sheesh. I send out a ton of email. I delete that crap about once a week (minus the important stuff)
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