Leaving email messages unread

[gaidensensei]

Do you do this?

For personal email linked to phone I do not, but I see people do it all the time.

Have seen a fair share of people that have 100 unread messages on their phone taskbar or mail icon. Lazy slobs...

 

[The Boston Dangler]

99 unread messages

 

[NikolaeVarius]

0 unread. I have friends who have thousands of unread messages. Bugs the hell out of me.

 

[rcpratt]

No, I keep always my unread below a day's worth of emails on both my personal and work accounts. One of my coworkers has like 1000+ unread and it drives me nuts.

 

[illusion88]

Sometimes I let a few pile up, but I try not to let it go for more than a day. I will delete messages without reading them (spam or some sort of autoreply usually).

 

[Wyndru]

I used to revert email back to unread to mark them until there were other ways implemented to flag an email for later viewing.

I do keep every email, I never delete them. I have discs of email going back to my first job, which is probably not even legal. I don't know why I do it, I guess I'm an email hoarder.

 

[imagoon]

Blackberry <> Lotus Notes "read marks" suck at syncing. Might might say 200 unread on my blackberry but that is because I read them on the client or Notes might say 358 unread for the reverse reason. Even more on the notes client since I filter a ton of junk mail and notes seems to think I *want* to read everything in the junk filter.

Notes "602 unread"
BB "108 unread"

IE the unread thing is useless to me since it doesn't work.

PS that is about 2 weeks total also. I do clear both of them 2x a month or more.

 

[guyver01]

i currently have 1,416 unread emails in my corporate mailbox

 

[Texashiker]

Have seen a fair share of people that have 100 unread messages on their phone taskbar or mail icon. Lazy slobs...

In one email account, I have about 95,000 or 96,000 unread emails.

Its the account that I use to send newsletters out of. Out of about 55,000 subscribers, I probably get about 3,000 - 4,000 bounced emails.

On top of the bounced emails, all of the database errors go to the same email address. When the database server goes down, I probably get anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand emails.

My personal email, I read all of them. But I only get a few dozen a day.

 

[coldmeat]

Digsby alerts me when I get an email, and I can just click "mark as read" without going to my inbox.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Do you do this?

For personal email linked to phone I do not, but I see people do it all the time.

Have seen a fair share of people that have 100 unread messages on their phone taskbar or mail icon. Lazy slobs...

Never. They either get read or deleted. Nothing sits in my inbox still unread for more than a few minutes.

I can't imagine having hundreds of unread emails.

I seriously hope you guys don't do this.

 

[fatpat268]

On my personal email, I have 0 unread. I read them as soon as I get them if I'm near a computer (Mail Checker for google chrome).

 

[Gunslinger08]

I email myself with "to do" items pretty frequently and I leave those unread until I've finished them. It's easier to have them in my email vs. a separate notes/tasks app on my phone.

 

[Capt Caveman]

483 unread. Oh noes!!!!

 

[Gibson486]

I have over 36k unread emails in my personal account....

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

tons

my brother has one that probably has 10k or more unread because it's used for botting

 

[sourceninja]

I get about 375 emails a day (that are not spam and are job related). I read and label them in the order received. I typically have about 100-150 unread emails at any time.

 

[TwiceOver]

0 unread. Deal with each email when it comes in.

 

[hanoverphist]

on my desktop outlook rarely shows any unread. on my phone, i go through them often, so i dont have any unread at all unless i was busy and havent gotten to them yet. more than 5 means i didnt have my phone on me for a day.

 

[KeithTalent]

In my Gmail, I have zero unread; Outlook at work I have 2,274 unread of a total 9,146 messages in my Inbox alone, so that's missing the thousands upon thousands in my subfolders.

I get way too many e-mails at work.

KT

 

[sourceninja]

on my desktop outlook rarely shows any unread. on my phone, i go through them often, so i dont have any unread at all unless i was busy and havent gotten to them yet. more than 5 means i didnt have my phone on me for a day.

I turned my phone's email off while on vacation for a week. I had so many emails when I got back I just did a mass reply that said

"If you still need to talk about this, email me back"

It would have taken weeks to get though them and read each one.

 

[Elbryn]

i get a crapload of automated system reports. some have headers like ALL OK! so i ignore them and they auto route to a folder. others list status at particular times so i leave them in their autorouted folders until i need to look at them.

once a month, i clear the emails.

 

[Bill Brasky]

0 unread, 4 junk mail.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I tend to try to keep my inbox clean. Every couple days I'll go through it and any email that does not require my action is either moved to the keep folder (I keep all my emails, never know when you need to go back, and I have virtually unlimited space at home compared to at work) and any email like forum notifications I just delete.

Eventually, I should probably switch to Maildir's, but never figured out how to get those to work, and Mboxes work fine even with thousands of emails, so far.

 

[spidey07]

If it's not important enough for me to read, then I don't read it.

That simple. I'm not going to waste my day "doing e-mail".

"did you get my E-mail?"

Yeah, but the subject wasn't descriptive enough so I just didn't read it. You probably just copied me anyway. If you need my attention e-mail me directly and I will respond, otherwise I'm not going to do your job for you. "did you get my E-mail", no I didn't. I got copied of your ramblings and action items but you choose to just copy me which means "FYI", therefore I have no actionable items in said e-mail that I didn't read.

so fuck you Mr. CC everybody. You expect me to recognize you have a problem and just decided "well if I copy everybody somebody will jump in and take care of it!" No, fuck you. I will not jump in just because you CC'd me. That's what fools do, now I give you credit Mr. CC everybody because there are a lot of fools who live and die by responding to their E-mail. That's what he does, That's ALL he does. He was built to respond to E-mails and he simply will NOT stop until every single E-mail is terminated.

An e-mail is the same as a MEMO, so learn proper communication protocol.