I have 30,801 emails. Time to clear it?

[DollaBill]

I havent done it in 3 years. Dump them or keep going?

[Chris]

I get that many a week from Viagra peddlers, dating services and fake Swiss watch stores.

[Wrinkleface]

dump if they R all gay porn jokes & pix!!!:leaving:

[jayboat]

Every couple years I delete the last two years' worth of replies in my sent folder.

[Wrinkleface]

I get that many a week from Viagra peddlers, .

Felicia must B wore out!!!:bump:

[cigdaze]

Damn Bill! Time to purge. I'll bet half those broads are already knocked-up and thrice divorced. :reddevil:

[Geronimo36]

I don't ever delete emails, I archive them so it doesn't slow down the program. Never know when you might need them! ;)

[DollaBill]

Damn Bill! Time to purge. I'll bet half those broads are already knocked-up and thrice divorced. :reddevil:

Thats actually pretty funny.

[Cash Bar]

That's like being proud you have 30,801 friends on myspace. Makes you feel good but it's old news.

[Big Time]

At work I am up to 46,374 unread e-mails...surely have over 100k emails that have been read stored away as well. I also delete hundreds a day.

[DollaBill]

That's like being proud you have 30,801 friends on myspace. Makes you feel good but it's old news.

oh blow me old man LOL. Btw hope all those deals are workin out bro.

[Big Time]

And when I say unread, most of the time I read them and drag them over to a folder for storage....so they say unread, but I have been over every single word in each one.

[baddogz28]

Keep em, and then open a new gmail account that won't be spam-ruined. I think that my yahoo account from 10 years ago has about 30k too.

[Perlmudder]

I have a hotmail and aol account that get a ton of spam. I only check my new aol account and my uni email. I figure if it was that important, they would call me!

[LaughingCat]

Those are staggering numbers. I got tired of so much spam. Much from entities I know but will not do business with. lots of news sources too. About a year ago, I started unsubscribing from most of them. The flow of crap dropped significantly.

Now I use rules in Outlook to auto-direct less important emails to separate folders. Check through them periodically. But my inbox stays less than 20 emails, sometimes almost no emails.

One trick is to do all my personal purchases and sign-ups using a separate email account. This keeps non-business items from clogging my business email during market hours.

SEC requires we archive all emails for 7 years (I believe). We have a system that automatically keeps evry email that we can go into, but it is not easily visible in Outlook. So we don't have to keep every email in Outlook "just in case". Instead, we can contact Compliance and have them pull anything using their archive system.

[Expensive Date]

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SEC requires we archive all emails for 7 years (I believe). We have a system that automatically keeps evry email that we can go into.



You work for the S.E.C.?