Since Gmail upgraded everyone’s account to over 2GB each I want to know what our readers are thinking of doing with all the extra space. I’ve had my account for a couple of months and I’ve only managed to get 1MB of e-mails.
What good news lists do you suggest?
Besides mailing lists, I guess I’ll just start using Gmail more with Gmail Drive and keep a small library of my favorite files ready to send to whoever needs it.
Nothing. :)
I’ve set up redericts in every e-mail account I have, so everything goes to my gmail archive now.
I’ll just use it whenever I need it. Primary contact address, address to sign up to services that don’t appear to be pure spam. Newsletters, personal small file sendage (although I often use yousendit if the file is of a medium to large size)
I just use email more as a result of gmail being so convienient, I don’t go out of my way to deliberately fill the provided space.
No big change. Still used for email.
I really wish Gmail would offer the ability for your own personal domain to use the Gmail interface.
That would seriously rock.
Right now I just use it for webmail access when I am away from my computer.
Before the storage was upped I had filled about 25% of the limit, now it’s down to 13%.
To fill mine up, I subscribed to every PCWorld and About.com newsletter. Everytime I’m asked for my email address online, I give them that one. AND, if any ever sends me a large attachment, I get them to send it to Gmail as well.
I’ve added some photos and a couple files that I like to pass along to friends and whoever else. But that’s all, nothing more. Its just an email account with a generous amount of storage. To me it’s not that different from my Yahoo account.
If you just want to blindly fill up your space then find some high-traffic mailing lists to subscribe to — preferably in HTML format.
I’ve moved to using Gmail as my primary email hub, and recently started auto-forwarding messages from other accounts to my Gmail account for convenience.
So far I’m up to 158MB in seven months of normal usage and I did have concerns about how I’d clean things up if-and-when I reach the limit (you can’t export, or sort messages by size!) although this mild concern was further alleviated by the recent jump to over 2GB in quota. (My footer says 2053MB — yee-har, 5MB extra on top of my 2 binary gigs)
By the way, I’ve heard rumours or speculations that there isn’t enforcement for the limit so when you fill it up it just merrily continues saying something like “You are currently using 105% of your space”, which sounds fairly plausible — the number of people exceeding the limit is probably not enough to cause trouble for them.
Final tip: If you’re subscribing to lists give them an email address in the format youraddress+something@gmail.com
Mail will still arrive at your inbox (youraddress@gmail.com) but in future you’ll be able to easily identify it (search for “to:+something”) and remove it. If you sign-up to mailing lists etc. with a different email address (eg. Register for the New York Times supplying youraddress+nyt@gmail.com as an email address) then you’ll also be able to know who compromised your email address when you start receiving spam!
That’s an interesting tip… I’ll have to try it.
Anyway in addition to news headlines I also have a Dilbert comic coming in every day.
and like mentioned before, I’ve forwarded all my past e-mail addresses to my gmail account.
The counter has slowed down considerably. Think it is counting down to the 3GB mark?(possibly by next April’s fools?)
Why do people want to fill it up with junk just because you can? That only means google has to add more storage and spend more money, slowing down the growth for the rest of us that actually use it.
Novelty?
I don’t really have much in my gmail account… I use it for semi personal email, it is the email address on my resume and a few of my friends have it but they tend to just call me anyway…
Like evil latte, I keep some files on there that I tend to forward more than others because its quicker than uploading it to my POP server each time. On the other hand, I haven’t uploaded tons of files just becasue “I can”…I agree with Derek Rose in that, if you need it, go for it, if not, don’t clutter it for kicks & giggles…
Like most everyone else, my Gmail doesn’t have a lot in it. It actually gets the least email out of all my accounts. I don’t think I’ll try to fill it up too hard, since my Yahoo account is full of spam to the point where I ignore it like they said to do when they increased the size to 250MB.
Assume: 1 as funfornothing@yahoo.com
2 as other email address.
Well i tried one thing. I composed a message from 1 and set it to forward to 2. When 2 receives email from 1 I set it to forward again to 1. But this doesn’t seem to work. because when last email is forwarded from 2 to 1 it says that message can’t be forwarded because the email has a same message-id.
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Link: http://www.wirzm.ch/goollery/
I cannot find where there are adequate intructions in order to sign up for gmail. I have always used goggle it is my main search engine so I think the email will be as good. Please let me know.
I use the computer all the time, but still can’t find out. Help!!
I is now telling me that I am using improper messages on the Comments part. If it won’t say what, and if I get this message agin, I give up.
why dont you guys just get Gmail Drive to help fill up your 2.18GB of space..
http://www.techspot.com/downloadget.php?id=297&file=1&evp=78599b40cb4b332f408126ff12b4e8ae
All i do is post hundreds of images and old files on my gmail drive which has only filled up about 6% of the 2.6 GB. I don’t think there is a limit since it is so difficult to fill it up that only a few would actually do it. Actually thats probably why google is able to provide such an enormous amount of space…because they don’t expect many to use it all.
Generated a script that sent 300 5MB emails… it filled it… :)
I’m trying to fill one with honest spam, no files, no mailbots. At the moment I have 524 MB, 20% of the account, and I’ve been trying for sbout 7 months whenever I get bored.