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I finally sorted through my GMail today, after like 15 years of accumulated mostly random garbage... (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
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Boring time...

Last night, I was up until around 4am, sorting through the last 15 years or so of my GMail, over 3600 emails all mixed together..

I found about 2100 of those emails were spam, reported and deleted of course. Then I spent the time to categorize the remaining valid ~1500 emails into sorted categories, mostly sorted by the site it pertains to.

It took over 4 hours...

Fun fun right? But I got it done!

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

This is why I use https://port87.com/

I will never have to do that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Ehh, that amount over 15 years is nothing. I just think about how much I get from legit sources (bank, utilities, insurance, steam forums, etc). I've be way over that amount in just a few years. The amount of true spam I get is very small. I mean like less than 20 a month small. And I use Gmail. I know that over 15 years that would still be several thousand but I should also point out that's what's in my spam folder. The amount of spam that makes it to my inbox is <1 month. I couldn't even calculate it because idk the last time I saw one.

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