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I just delete things as they come.

I just go in and delete when they tell me my mailbox is full - which is about every 2-3 weeks. I have 25,000 in my inbox alone. I probably have another 25,000 in my other folders.

@regberadaisy: oh! i forgot to answer about my personal mail. i am really anal about my gmail but i don't care about my work email. haha.

right now i have 50 in my work inbox. i try to keep it under 50, preferably under 30.

I currently have 18,000 in my gmail. It makes me feel important.

hahaha...just kidding! wow I really need to clean that out.

I'm paranoid about work email though. 4500 roughly. I fear if I delete something I will need it tomorrow!

I'm pretty good about deleting emails. At work, we have limited space and I send/receive email attachments that can be monstrous in size. About every other week, I get the lovely email reminder that I'm about to reach my capacity. I didn't pay attention once, and had 28 emails stuck in my outbox. yikes!

I recently discovered the magic of archiving emails in gmail!! I used to just keep everything in my inbox (20,000+ emails). I never understood what the benefit of archiving was.

But then I did a bit of googling and decided to archive EVERYTHING and just keep the emails that need responding/attending to in my inbox. It has been SO helpful keeping me on top of my emails and replies! And now I am obsessive about archiving or deleting emails as they come in so that I can keep my inbox at under 25 emails at all time.

I kept everything when I was working. I always followed up phone calls with documented minutes because I had a lot of "oh I never agreed to that" crap going on. I had so many archives it wasn't funny, usually per project.

I clean my mailbox every 3 months or so. But I have multiple folders I direct all mail to as soon as I receive them.

@mediagirl: I clean my gmail but my old edu junk box I only clean out like once a month & there are thousands of spam emails! it's awful!

I just cleaned out my personal email account and went from 500+ down to under 50..and it felt so good.

I think I clean them out once every two weeks. It drives my hubby crazy when he looks over and sees hundreds of emails, but it only bugs me when I can't find emails that I'm looking for.