You are currently using 6158 MB (84%) of your 7261 MB.
How did I manage to accumulate over 6 GB of email? Three words: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. When GMail opened IMAP I moved all of my email stores which existed on various hard drives in various forms into my GMail account so everything would be in one place. I also recently started receiving all of my RSS feeds into my GMail account. I like it this way. However that first byte count is rising faster than the second which means I will hit 100% probably early summer to late autumn 2009.
I've been mulling what to do about it. I have considered deleting email I no longer want or need. But let's face it. I would have to delete thousands of emails and I simply don't have time to go through them one-by-one to determine what I need to keep and what can be thrown away. Another thought is the good folks at Google, being the great people they are, will see I am quickly approaching my limit and will bump that out a bit for me. Dang, still at 7261 MB. Sometimes flattery gets you somewhere. A third option is to create archive GMail accounts and move everything like Father Roderick just did. But then my email isn't all in one place.
I believe GMail should follow Yahoo Mail's lead and give truly infinite email storage. What does Google have to lose? Google hosts my domain and I can create about an additional 20 email accounts. That's nearly 150 GB of available space for moi if I wanted it. I would gladly exchange 10 of those email accounts for an additional 75 GB or so. And don't forget I could just as easily create an infinite number of regular GMail accounts. Wouldn't it be easier just to allow users all of the space they need rather than have them trick the system?
I've been mulling what to do about it. I have considered deleting email I no longer want or need. But let's face it. I would have to delete thousands of emails and I simply don't have time to go through them one-by-one to determine what I need to keep and what can be thrown away. Another thought is the good folks at Google, being the great people they are, will see I am quickly approaching my limit and will bump that out a bit for me. Dang, still at 7261 MB. Sometimes flattery gets you somewhere. A third option is to create archive GMail accounts and move everything like Father Roderick just did. But then my email isn't all in one place.
I believe GMail should follow Yahoo Mail's lead and give truly infinite email storage. What does Google have to lose? Google hosts my domain and I can create about an additional 20 email accounts. That's nearly 150 GB of available space for moi if I wanted it. I would gladly exchange 10 of those email accounts for an additional 75 GB or so. And don't forget I could just as easily create an infinite number of regular GMail accounts. Wouldn't it be easier just to allow users all of the space they need rather than have them trick the system?
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I have my own e-mail account hosted by bluehost and I can set up how much storage there is in every account. My main account has now unlimited storage. :)
You're so unique! You're actually the ONLY person I've ever known that can max out an email account the size of gmail.
Congratulations!
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