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[ackotheadvertiser]

Wow congratulations, I didn't even knew that was possible xD ... You can do an other GMail account, I think it was allowed to have two of them( at least I know I do, me@gmail.com and me2@gmail.com ), so you won't have to pay to have more storage... Also, it always counts so your accounts will be growing...
-How is it possible to have 60 000 e-mails at yahoo, when they only allow 10MB's of storage? Or is it now unlimited ?

[TheDisturbedOne]

They are now unlimited. It has been like that for about a year or two.

[asdftheking]

I would say get another gmail, or two for that matter.

[-Sky-]

asdftheking, on Apr 15 2009, 03:55 PM, said:

I would say get another gmail, or two for that matter.

Why would he need two accounts? I doubt he'd want to register another GoogleMail account when he already has one. It'd be a little stupid, since you'd forget your passwords/IDs most of the time. Depending on if he'd have it all saved on Firefox. (That's if he has Firefox).

[serverph]

lots of suggestions you got there for me traplings. thanks. i have a yahoo mail, but i don't get to use it that much. one good thing about yahoo account is the ability to alias your username. with one account, you could create several aliases (as long as it's not used already in the system). this i do specifically since i wanted to have a separate alias for the different yahoogroups i belong to, and yet still can be manageable under one "main" yahoo account. i dunno if this is a feature already in gmail, any observations?

having said that, a google account has a more universal appeal to me than a yahoo account. a lot more features and services (which i like and often use) is tied up with a google account than a yahoo account. and gmail is just one of those.

to update you guys, i have already set up an extensive list of filters so i don't get a clogged inbox for this particular gmail account. the gist is: filter, forward, trash. if an attachment type i have in my filters (example, .AVI) is found, it gets forwarded first to a new gmail i have exclusively for attachments. after a successful filter and forward process, it gets moved to trash. it will remain there for 30 days until it gets expunged into the purgatory where all trashed emails go. i sometimes have to clean up the SENT folder to clear up space some more, but for the most part, the filter-forward-trash system i've got handles the tricky part of sorting through all the attachments muck, then backing it up in another account without much help from me... other than the occasional manual cleaning i do if my filters miss something.

if yahoo mail is now unlimited, i may look in the possibility of making a second forwarding process to it, and have a second set of backup for the effort.

[vineethmohan]

Oh, but GMail says its account space is always growing. If this is the case, why can't you use Rediff Mail which offers unlimited space for free?

[MikeFindBigMail]

We've created a little (no charge) website to help track down the big messages in a Gmail account at findbigmail.com. In the process I also gathered some links to articles about reducing space in gmail accounts that others may find useful: http://www.findbigma...-Gmail-account. Its still in alpha, but it seems to be working well for people. We hope others find it useful. Thanks!

[SeanKelly]

serverph; as you have mentioned about the Yahoo "aliases", Google offer this service also but you cannot pick your aliases as they are simply based off your main gmail email address, many users call this the dot trick and I find it really useful especially when signing up on websites.

It works as follows:

You own emailaddress@gmail.com, periods in the email will still redirect to the main email address so you can have a list of emails like:

emaila.ddress@gmail.com
em.ailaddress@gmail.com
emailadd.ress@.gmail.com

And they will all forward mail to emailaddress@gmail.com, sites interpret these addresses as new emails but Gmail interpret these all as one address.

Also regarding the main post, It's so weird that you have completely exhausted your gmail accounts capacity.
I recommend that you get a domain (free ones work, .co.cc etc.) and register your domain with Google Apps Standard (for free), this would give you lots of email addresses that all redirect to one email address with lots of space.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-all

Edited by SeanKelly, 25 September 2010 - 11:49 PM.

[rpgsearcherz]

SeanKelly, on 25 September 2010 - 11:45 PM, said:

serverph; as you have mentioned about the Yahoo "aliases", Google offer this service also but you cannot pick your aliases as they are simply based off your main gmail email address, many users call this the dot trick and I find it really useful especially when signing up on websites.

It works as follows:

You own emailaddress@gmail.com, periods in the email will still redirect to the main email address so you can have a list of emails like:

emaila.ddress@gmail.com
em.ailaddress@gmail.com
emailadd.ress@.gmail.com

And they will all forward mail to emailaddress@gmail.com, sites interpret these addresses as new emails but Gmail interpret these all as one address.

Also regarding the main post, It's so weird that you have completely exhausted your gmail accounts capacity.
I recommend that you get a domain (free ones work, .co.cc etc.) and register your domain with Google Apps Standard (for free), this would give you lots of email addresses that all redirect to one email address with lots of space.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-all

I never knew about the dot trick. That's pretty cool.

As for catch-all, I never thought about using Gmail for that, but then again after all the time I've used Gmail (I joined in the first beta days when it was invite-only) I'm only at 3%. I don't get attachments very often though.