Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Poll: How many messages do you have in your inbox?

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 06-27-2003, 08:42 AM:

I thought I was bad with between 2000 and 4000 messages in my inbox (just because I'm typically both a pack rat and somewhat unorganized both with email and in real life). But the other day I came across one of my users who had 22,863 messages in her inbox! Those are unorganized messages sitting in the top level of her email that have not been sorted into folders. That HAS to be some kind of a record! At least here, it would be. Can anyone top that?

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 06-27-2003, 09:33 AM:

On UNIX systems, my messages don't stay in my inbox after I read them, so I typically have less than 5.

At work, since we have Microsoft Exchange Server, the way our stuff works, messages stay in the Inbox after being read, unless deleted. Logging in now for the first time today, I see 7 unread messages in my Inbox, with 48.2 MB of mail in it. There are 1156 messages counting the 7 unread ones. Every few months, I go in and delete all messages older than 3 to 6 months. Otherwise, the size would increase linearly with time.

Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 06-27-2003, 09:42 AM:

I have about two thousand altogether, with about six hundred of those at the root level at the moment, mainly ones that don't seem to fit anywhere, so I can't decide where to file them. I archive and purge about every six months, the archive goes onto CD. I'm overdue for a filing and archiving session, but too busy to do it at the moment. There are other staff here whose inboxes are even worse than mine.

We don't have Exchange at the moment, so all my Outlook stuff is sitting in a .PST file, it's 40.6MB at the moment.

I keep nearly all non-junk mail for at least six months. Junk gets deleted as soon as I see it, but tends to stay in deleted items for a few days before I finally purge it.

Posted by Joe Beres (Member # 678) on 06-27-2003, 09:49 AM:

I feel much better now. I have about 1000 or so right now. I check mail on three different computers and leave any personal (Non-Spam) messages on the server so that I can get them on my main computer. That often leaves a lot of unsorted messages on my computer. I go through them periodically, but by the time I get to it, it becomes a long and annoying task.

Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 06-27-2003, 09:54 AM:

Oh yeah, thanks guys, I forgot to mention the size. 695 MB is the size of her email file.

We're using Novell GroupWise here, and it doesn't seem to have slowed down any for her. Even when she opens her mail from across the WAN.

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 06-27-2003, 11:59 AM:

I've always been ruthless about keeping up with email. At my last "real" job we used MS Outlook with Exchange Server and I never had more than ten emails sitting unfiled in the inbox. I did have dozens of folders for all of the projects I was working on at any given time. About every six months or so I'd archive completed projects to floppies. I used to get comments and compliments from that company's IT department about my mail. [Big Grin]

Now I just have Hotmail but still never have more than a couple of emails in my inbox, with plenty of folders for hobbies and (very [Frown]

) occasional free-lance projects.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 06-27-2003, 12:36 PM:

I usually have very few in my inbox....I check email at least 3 or 4 times a day and, and on each of my computers (I use 4 different ones, depending on where I am) I file ruthlessly. I also have a folder called "stuff to keep" in which I keep miscellaneous important stuff. The rest gets deleted. And about every six months I go thru my "stuff to keep" folders and delete about 90% of the stuff which turned out to be not all that important.

My job isn't email-centered though, so I don't get as much as some of you guys obviously do.

Posted by Jeff Taylor (Member # 443) on 06-27-2003, 12:37 PM:

Typically around 200...every so often I move the important ones to another folder

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 06-27-2003, 01:38 PM:

I just cleaned out my inbox and I think I have 2 in there right now, and about 60 or so in 'other' folders. I try to keep it small considering I have a space limit! [Smile]

Posted by Michael Harlow (Member # 1353) on 06-27-2003, 03:29 PM:

I only have 15 right now [Frown]

Posted by William Phillips (Member # 1162) on 06-27-2003, 04:36 PM:

Dont have any [Frown]

not even junk email.
Any one want to send me one [Smile]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-27-2003, 04:39 PM:

3669

Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 06-27-2003, 05:32 PM:

It drives me nuts having e-mails in my inbox that I've already read. I generally try to take care of any that require my immediate attention; or if the e-mail has some information I think I might need later (like an address or a phone number) I'll ask myself "Will I actually call that person? When will I ever send that person somethign in the mail???" and usually I'll delete it... it's not like I can't ask for it again when the time comes.

Right now I have maybe 10 things in my in box at home... maybe 20 here at work just because I'm being lazy and posting to Film-Tech instead of printing up and dealing with my work related stuff.

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 06-27-2003, 07:17 PM:

A dozen or so at home and only three at work (since I just started today). Usually, I just deal with each message and file it away immediately. In other news, I have received 3095 spam messages since June 1 which have been kept out of my inbox thanks to Spamassassin. [thumbsup]

My preferred mail client is Pine, which I run on Solaris workstations both at work and at home.

At a previous job, we had one user (the company CEO, of course) who had a 250-meg mail spool. She never deleted anything and then complained when her IMAP client was slow. Grr.

Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 06-27-2003, 09:19 PM:

Hmm lets see.....

<Fires up "mail.app" from the terminal like a true geek>

216 mesages.
Checking for new mail...
Featching headers...
218 messages.

Lets check the Mac OS X spam filter.
281 messages, 160 unread.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 06-27-2003, 09:34 PM:

3.

Posted by Dave Macaulay (Member # 813) on 06-27-2003, 09:58 PM:

I get about 200 spam messages on a msn.com account every day. It's not uncommon to have 1000+ there if I'm lazy about cleaning it up (there are about 4 real messages a week). I don't generally sort or delete non-spam messages. I don't have any disk space problems so the folder size isn't an issue. When outlook 2000 starts to get sluggish I archive messages.

OFF TOPIC: How the hell do I get spam messages that show as already being read, when I know I haven't read them and do not use a preview window????

Posted by Jason Burroughs (Member # 68) on 06-27-2003, 10:03 PM:

For what its worth, Outlook PSTs have a practical size limit of 2GB, I have worked with users that have exceeded this size. Only thing to do at that point is to use a PST cropping tool.

Since I'm not at my work computer, I don't know how many messages are in my Inbox and subfolders, but Sent Items is over 2000. (and that's not spam I'm sending)

Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 06-30-2003, 09:32 AM:

quote:
How the hell do I get spam messages that show as already being read, when I know I haven't read them and do not use a preview window

There are viruses out there that once they get to your Outlook, they trigger even before you open them. So, if you use Outlook or Outlook express, I suppose that's one way it could happen. Unless of course someone else has your password. That's another way. But I can't imagine having someone else's password JUST to read their spam! [Wink]

Posted by Nate Lehrke (Member # 1460) on 06-30-2003, 01:06 PM:

711 messages in mine. I also generally get around 60-100 spam [fu]

messages everyday.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 06-30-2003, 06:26 PM:

I have 151 messages in my inbox. I delete most new "real" messages after reading them.

On any given day, I may receive around 60 pieces of SPAM. It takes less than 10 seconds to delete all all of it. I just shift-click the entire block of new mail and then scroll through to find any "real" messages. I control-click those out of the selection and hit the [fu]

delete

key. I hope the spam marketers die of brain cancer from trying to think of new ways how to spell Viagara to get it past mail filters.

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 07-02-2003, 12:05 AM:

With my usnrete7@aol, I don't get any spam. I have it screwed down tight, and have it set to accept about 125 different email addresses from friends and businesses.

On accassion, I get about 2 to 5 spams per week on shuttershaft email address. I delete, report, and automatically block those addresses.

The remaining AOL email addresses I have receive no spam at all, even though I haven't set up any mail controls on them yet.

About once a month, I have some crap come through on my hotmail email account, and I simply delete that crap.

Posted by John Westlund (Member # 913) on 07-02-2003, 02:05 AM:

I have 65 messages right now. All are work related with the exception of 5 or 6.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-02-2003, 05:17 AM:

I usually get about 20 a day and I'm using SpamCop. It has filtered 8,462 spam messages in the last 6 months.

I wish it would do more! I am sooo tired of all the straight porno, viagra, mortgage, bootleg, underage, etc crap I could scream!

There is a provision to black-list and report spammers and their IP, but some still gets thru.

>>> Phil

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 07-02-2003, 12:36 PM:

SPAM should be on the decrease. AOL and Microsoft have teamed up to reduce the amount of Spam. However, simply deleting it without reporting it will just slow their efforts down.