Emails

[Smit]

Have rules setup for some emails to tidy those away in to appropriate folders, everything else is in my inbox but is archived every month or so.

 

[Westyfield2]

Both my GMail at home and my Outlook at work have all the mails in the Inbox. Just use the search to find any I need.

 

[Guest2]

Hotmail I did have about 100 pages of emails, I went through them and got rid of most
Work emails I just keep everything in inbox, delete the rubbish or large emails and archive the rest. Its usually around 25mb, 200 items

 

[AHarvey]

35k emails?

2 options - sort through them all or delete them all, if anything is important, they'll get back to you

 

[Morgoth]

I keep my hotmail inbox under 2 pages usually. I find email is a bit like normal post, you sign up for things to get some through the door then you realise its such a chore to get rid of the junk that you end up letting it build up a bit.

 

[SiriusB]

My GMail has a load of rules for auto-sorting emails. I have folders/tags for Orders, Newsletters and similar things. I also have folders for specific items such as emails from my credit card company, ISP, O2 and the like.

I used to hate a massive list of emails to go through every day on my GMail, so now I can go through stuff that is important much faster. With things like newsletters and notifcations I mass-nuke them every week or so.

My Outlook email is all sent to the Inbox, and I sort it into folders afterwards. I deal with a number of clients and I have several contacts with each client. It is nice to simply click on Client A folder and see everything relating to them without the need for searching.

 

[sjcf1]

My hotmail has various sorting rules, as does my college email. Anything thats not, newsletters etc gets sent to my phone for me to have a read.

 

[lookitsjonno]

mine is total mayhem.

 

[LiE]

My gmail account which is personal use only I simply archive all the emails I've read, star important ones before archiving them and leave emails I need to deal with in the inbox.

Work is a different story. I create folders for all sorts and only end up with 10-20 emails in my inbox max. You can't rely on searching for something 6-12 months down the line, chances are you'll not know what to search for.