Do you keep old emails?

[BCYL]

I have seen people who have hundreds of emails in their mailbox, many of them from years ago which I'm sure they dont even remember what it's about...

I usually delete an e-mail as soon as it's outdated or not needed anymore... so I never have more than 50 emails in my mailbox...

Do you keep your old emails around or do you clean out your mailbox regularly?

 

[Tetsuo]

I only keep emails from my g/f

 

[minendo]

I have all emails ever received through my school account (main email account) except those crap spam mails. Been receiving them since May 1999 and keep them all.

 

[ElFenix]

i've got back to 11/9/2000 which is when i lost all my emails and switched mail clients

 

[Jugernot]

I have all the email I have written and recieved all the way back to 1998.... before then I don't have. Anyway, I just archive it.

 

[MeanMeosh]

yes

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i've got back to 11/9/2000 which is when i lost all my emails and switched mail clients

Me too, except it's 7/9/2001.

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

i have 5000+ emails since december 1999

 

[MrDingleDangle]

<--- has every email from 4-2-99 on...

and every email sent from my home computer

 

[sirpado]

How do you save emails through outlook, like back them up?

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: sirpado
How do you save emails through outlook, like back them up?

File ---> Export

 

[BCYL]

Originally posted by: sirpado
How do you save emails through outlook, like back them up?

You can export them to a file...

Go to 'File' -> 'Import and Export', then follow the directions...

 

[TheHeartless]

Yes i keep old emails in my mail box. I delete them when i really cant rember what the e-mail is about. or just for the heck of it to free up some of my space..

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

It can be important enough for work related stuff (so you can keep people to their promises), personal mail it totally depends on what though.

 

[Marauder-]

Outlook export is dumb - but anyways - i use it and everytime I have to reformat (less now w/ bigger hd) I have a document folder of things that I kept from that revision. there's an application data folder -> microsoft -> outlook that has the 3 main files that carry your email - one is the inbox/sent one, one is the archived, and the last is external emails kept (hotmail). Outlook uses .pst files, I think Outlook express uses something like .ast

 

[Xionide]

I keep reciepts from shady resellers.

-Xionide

 

[Marauder-]

Oh yeah- email dates back to 97.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

I've got mail back to '96 archived on here somewhere. I never need it, but I have it.

I do keep all my email at work, except for some of the cron job stuff and some other ones. it's a CYA thing mainly.

 

[Czar]

I have emails since 1999 or 1998, then I mean all of them, still using the same email client

 

[Chaotic42]

Yeah, I have mutt save them all to a file. I've got emails from as far back as 1998, IIRC.

 

[Anubis]

yes they all get moved to a deleted folder

 

[TheCorm]

I have emails dating back about a year....forum subscription updates I delete though. I recently zipped up my outlook express database for backup purposes.

Hey does outlook express have any kind of archiving / backup facility at all? Is there some kind of plugin or software available?

Jamie