How Old Is Your Inbox?

// April 26th, 2007 // Brain Dump

I have been using mozilla’s email software for many years now as Microsoft’s Outlook or Outlook Express just didn’t give me confidence in security. I now use the excellent Mozilla Thunderbird which is a great stand alone email package. Fully featured, hot on security and simple to use, but anyway, that’s not what I’m posting about.

I was just looking through my inbox and noticed that I still had emails from the year 2000 in there. Did they have computers back then!! That’s 7 years worth of email, surely that’s too much. OK, I don’t have every email I’ve ever got in the last 7 years, a lot has been filtered off into folders or deleted, but maybe it’s time for a proper spring clean.

How do you manage your emails? I’ll be interested to know.

2 Responses to “How Old Is Your Inbox?”

  1. Jason Cartwright says:
    April 26, 2007 at 11:42 am

    I’ve got every email I’ve ever sent or received (at any company) archived in PSTs. Bloody gigs and gigs of them.

    Now I use a Google Hosted account with Gmail etc – and damn its good. Its zero hassle.

  2. Garry says:
    April 26, 2007 at 6:01 pm

    Yeah, I’m using gmail a lot more now. Although with 2 gmail accounts and about 7 other email accounts it can get a bit hard to manage.

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