HELP! I think I'm an email hoarder.

[progressoid]

I just spent an hour deleting emails and I still have a few thousand to deal with.

How did this happen?

:scared:

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. I never thought of it in that way, but DA-YUM --

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... I have almost 3700 emails in my Inbox dating back to mid-2006.
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OH NOES!!! I'M A YAHOORDER!!!!!
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[progressoid]

4. Oh, yeah and then there is the hotmail account!

:banghead:

Luckily that's just a junk account so I doubt there is much in there I need.

[madinmaryland]

2. I file all of my emails (well most of them) in various folders...

Personal, family, work, project, etc.

I have emails going back nearly eight years!

[progressoid]

3. I'm semi-organized.

About half are in folders - those should be easier to deal with. Its the rest of the miscellaneous stuff that is a pain to sort through.

[pokerfan]

5. I have about 5000

dating back to 2007. I don't plan on deleting them either, not unless I run out of space. They serve as a sort of diary and I can search for keywords.

[TorchTheWitch]

6. you and me both

I have no idea how this happened, and I really do try to deal with it, but it just keeps getting worse.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. There's a way to delete emails? nt

[progressoid]

8. Not according to CSI

They can find any email ever written by anybody. Even the deleted ones. Which will lead them to the murderer...and his lover.

[MsKandice01]

9. I have over 70,000 in my inbox...

I need an intervention.

[progressoid]

10. Whaaaa???

[Kali]

11. I am (was) really bad too.

but I lost them ALL a couple months ago when I wiped my computer trying to figure out why I lost my internet connection. I was using outlook express and was in a hurry so didn't save anything other than a few I had filed for various reasons as actual documents. So far it hasn't been to traumatic not having access but I lost a few addresses I would like to have again.

Now I'm using my server's web version but I hate it and it doesn't have much storage so I am procrastinating on what to do next - outlook again or something else? I never really had any problems with it although there was a period where it would send out double mails - 2 versions of whatever I sent but it seemed to go away by itself.