how many mail messages do YOU have?

[Sesshi]

There are 88,703 items in my Exchange inbox.

And 0 unread items.

 

[Lollypop]

How are people using mail folders? Do people still use static folders? I've gotten to where I just use smart folders. I have one for "Today" which includes anything from the current day, unread, or flagged e-mails (my way of indicating to myself I need to do something with it), then I have four more folders "Last 7 Days", "Last 31 Days", "Last 100 Days", "Last 250 Days" I use this to speed up finding e-mails from someone or about something when I know roughly when the conversation took place. Before smart folders I had dozens of rules and dozens of static folders which I was very happy to do away with when smart folders arrived.

What are other people doing?

We use spotlight! My folder structure originated with 10.3, before smart folders, when i went over to tiger I started using spotlight for the few cases where I wasnt exactly sure about something.

 

[opik]

1103 messages

 

[robbieduncan]

In my Inbox? A pitiful 1354 items. In my cocoa-dev mail-list folder 38638 items! And it still works.

 

[exabytes18]

2,915 in my gmail.

"You are currently using 2446 MB (89%) of your 2752 MB"

I really need to max it out again, it's been a long time Since I've been at 100%.

 

[Coolnat2004]

1003 dating back to Nov 26, 2004.. Although I clean it out like twice a year..

 

[jive]

971... I don't delete things. And I don't subscribe to loads of companies...

 

[bibimbap]

3148.

I'm waiting for someone to make a pythonless binary of Gmail forwarder for Mail.App.

 

[Giaguara]

I definitely use traditional mail rules and mailboxes at work.
For some mailboxes I need to split the mailboxes at least twice a year due to mail limitations of size handling ... so total size a few GB?

 

[timnosenzo]

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