Deleting Emails

@ZedSmart (19753)
Philippines
January 10, 2021 1:22am CST
I have more than five thousand to date and most of it are not important. Last night, I removed at least 500+. I already deleted perhaps half of the number since it was created in 2004 and those are not part of the current number. I will continue to remove those unnecessary emails and then do it regularly to avoid keeping it up. Do you delete unimportant emails you're receiving immediately?
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• Rupert, Idaho
10 Jan 21
I always plan to delete them right away but don't and they build up...I am probably getting close to 5000 again.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
Same here. I don't know why I let it to build up. I just can't throw a thing immediately.
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• Rupert, Idaho
10 Jan 21
@ZedSmart I don't know why I let it build up either! Just too much trouble to delete them as they come in I guess lol
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@rsa101 (37966)
• Philippines
11 Jan 21
@ZedSmart I guess those spam mails are just relentless and there is a tome you get tired already deleting them daily.
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@rsa101 (37966)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
Yes l do it too but not on regular basis. That is why emails pile up too. It’s just too easy deleting them for those that send the same topic heading its easier to group delete them.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
That's right. It will be clean soon.
@May2k8 (18080)
• Indonesia
10 Jan 21
I never take care of my emails, they just keep piling up. I would delete them later.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
The problem is I will select it one by one and cannot do the delete all processes because there's are important mails that I think I should keep there.
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• Philippines
10 Jan 21
I have delete a few emails from time to time, some of them are just spam.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
It's easy for the spam because it will go directly to its folder and then you can do the deleting one time.
@jstory07 (134477)
• Roseburg, Oregon
10 Jan 21
I go through my emails and delete them every day.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
That is better as it won't take time much.
@LadyDuck (458230)
• Switzerland
10 Jan 21
I delete every day those that I do not consider important.
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@LadyDuck (458230)
• Switzerland
10 Jan 21
@ZedSmart My husband also has to clean his inbox every day, he receives more than 800 emails per day.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
@LadyDuck Whoa! That's a lot.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
Good that you are regularly checking your inbox. Yes, it's better to have it deleted on time to avoid build up.
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@prinzcy (32322)
• Malaysia
10 Jan 21
Not immediately but maybe once or twice a month. It's easier to do that with a laptop than mobile phone.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
I did it at desktop because I can do it with larger batches.
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
11 Jan 21
I used to do that when I had a small memory in the good old days but now with so many GBs I just do not bother
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
11 Jan 21
@ZedSmart If you just state the keyword it helps a lot in the search mail option.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
11 Jan 21
@allknowing That's sort of cleaning my inbox too.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
11 Jan 21
The downside is that, if you want to look back some important ones, you need to go through with those unnecessary mails.
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@Raine38 (12257)
• United States
10 Jan 21
At first I let them marinate in my inbox because I can't be bothered. But when I ran out of memory, I have to delete these emails and it took me days to clean my mailbox. Since then I make it a point to delete spam emails and the not important ones regularly.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
Yes, it took us time to figure it out and then do it later.
@JudyEv (325854)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Jan 21
I try to keep my emails to a low number.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
12 Jan 21
Yes, it's easy to manage when you keep it in low number and removed those unnecessary.
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
Yes, I do. Because I find my email messy when there are inessential emails
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
Most of the I just ignore until I find it annoying when I look back to older mails.
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@Nakitakona (56302)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
Everyday I delete my emails after I read them.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
Do you keep those important ones or you still delete them after reading?
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@Nakitakona (56302)
• Philippines
11 Jan 21
@ZedSmart I keep them in a separate folders with a label.
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
10 Jan 21
That is a lot of emails. I remember several years ago some spammers got hold of my email address and I was getting hundreds of spam emails everyday.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
I hate those spam emails. Good thing they go directly to its folder and I delete them instantly without looking where it's coming.
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• India
10 Jan 21
Actually no I don't and it's OK these don't consume alot of space
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
I think Yahoo is not limiting space. Gmail just gives us 25g space if I'm corrrect.
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• India
10 Jan 21
@ZedSmart that's still big
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@excellence7 (3647)
• Mauritius
10 Jan 21
I can relate to what you are going through. I also have hundreds of unimportant emails in my inbox for no reason. It's because I have subscribed to too many sites. Sometimes, I happen to delete the unimportant emails right away or sometimes, I wait for them to accumulate and do a mass-deleting which is quite hectic. I recently decided to review my subscriptions. Whenever an email comes in, I review my need of receiving it. If it's not important, I unsubscribe. By doing this, I receive lesser emails than I used to receive in the past.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
Yes, usually those are newsletters. I also unsubscribed most of them and hopefully no more emails coming from them from now on.
@rhuenz (10646)
10 Jan 21
Omg!five thousand emails are too much,I have thousand plus and I got irritated deleting. So I leave it.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
Ha ha. I should delete it so that I will recognize immediately those incoming mails that have importance.
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