What to do When Your Gmail Inbox is Full

Ross Mayfield writes at WebProNews about maxing out his Gmail account and what a terrible mess he's in due to Gmail's limited tools for finding the huge file attachments that are clogging his inbox. Mayfield mentions that he'd much rather lay out some cash than get into an inbox management game, but that's not an option at this point.

"While there are some good tactics for reducing Gmail volume, the solutions I want are not available to me:

* I want to whip out my credit card and buy more storage.

* I want to not only search to find deletable emails, but sort. I can make a massive list of emails with attachments, but I can't sort to eliminate the top 20 files that are undoubtedly hogs.

* I want to keep my user pattern of being a piler, not a filer, and relying on search for recall

* I don't want to have to offload my archive onto my client and end up having two seperate places to search

Unfortunately, for now, I'm back to the user experience I've had with webmail. Constantly tending to an inbox at the limit instead of actually getting work done."

Google trained him to not throw anything away with this message on Gmail's homepage:

Lots of space
Over 2769.027130 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message.

...but that turned out to be bad advice for this email power user.

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