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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: POP3 vs. IMAP
Date: 2 May 2014 17:27:08 GMT
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On 2014-05-02, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <300420140921364770%YourName@YourISP.com> 
>   Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>> In article <1lkv1yf.1pi9s3p19vmkuaN%befr@eaglesoft.de>, Bernd Fröhlich
>> <befr@eaglesoft.de> wrote:
>>> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>>> > 
>>> > Although they have been getting larger, email providers usually have a
>>> > limited mailbox storage space (and in some cases that limited space also
>>> > has to include your website data, cloud backup, etc.), whereas the
>>> > amount of space on your own computer is virtually unimited. A big email
>>> > or many emails left sitting on the server can cause new emails to be
>>> > bounced back with a "mailbox full" error.
>>> 
>>> Good point.
>>> My mail-archive dates back into the last century and has a size of about
>>> 100000 mails / 3GB.
>
>> Personally I can't be bothered keeping emails, including work ones -
>> once I've dealt with them, they get deleted. I've never need to go back
>> to any old emails.
>
> Really?
>
> I get: Invoices, payment notifications, receipts, and personal mail,
> none of which I want to delete. I still have emails from my dad and
> step-mom who have both died. I have emails that are 20+ years old.
>
> I used to spend time trying to decide what email to save, but it as a
> large time sync. I don't delete any email now as it's simpler to keep
> everything that figure out what I want to keep.
>
> Every now and then I go through and delete some of the list mail or
> subscription mail in large batches (using smart folders). Still have
> over 5GB though.

Same here (including emails from my now-deceased father). My default is
to keep everything, for similar reasons. 

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