Is Your Email Inbox Constantly Full?

@Rallon (441)
United States
October 15, 2010 11:48am CST
Seems like I get a ton of unwanted emails a day. The junk catcher is catching some, but I always end up having to manually delete a lot each day. It is very annoying! Do you also have this problem? I bet lots of people do. I guess it is just one of those pains of the modern age. It is a satisfactory feeling, somehow, when you get your email account cleaned up though. Is it not great to have a clean inbox? It's kind of like having a clean house I think.
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41 responses
20 Oct 10
I get 400-500 of useless emails daily. My solution to this would be use the filtering option on the email service to filter out the spam. Then I'll create a few folders: one for persona, the second one maybe payment/receipt..etc and move the important emails to the corresponding folders and delete the rest. So everyday I have 0 spam in my inbox. Cheers.
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8 Nov 10
Jesus Christmas! 400-500?! That's a lot! I start getting irritated at about 30 lol
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@namdaemun (283)
• Indonesia
16 Oct 10
I too get emails every day. approximately 15 emails a day. mostly are offers, marketing emails. I seldom delete those emails. I only clean it when it is too many. A clean inbox sometimes isn't great. I mean, clearing all mails could cause your important emails to be deleted as well
@K46620 (1986)
• United States
22 Oct 10
Yes, almost always. I'm going though it's emails right now, I've got it down to less than 15.
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@Rallon (441)
• United States
22 Oct 10
Great! Keep it clean and you are less likely to overlook any emails that are important and ones from friends. I have finally gotten my cleaned up and plan on keeping it that way this time.
@K46620 (1986)
• United States
22 Oct 10
Yep. It's now down to 2 emails :-)
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@reploid (1371)
• France
16 Oct 10
It might be a coincidence but right now I am cleaning my e-mail from unwanted spams. I wish I will not receive those spams again and I am unsubscribing to a lot of sites I did not even subscribed to. Well, Goodluck.
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@reploid (1371)
• France
16 Oct 10
Yeah. We need a lot of patience. I have noticed that while I'm erasing some spams, some other spams are coming to add themselves to the pile.
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@Rallon (441)
• United States
16 Oct 10
That is too bad! It is very annoying and time consuming. Trying to figure out which ones to keep and which ones to toss can be a real eye-strain and taxes your patience too. Sorry for it to happen to you too!
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@madteaparty (2748)
• Japan
16 Oct 10
In my case, even if I receive a lot of spam every day, my spam filter works well, so it rarely lets any of them go to my inbox -it sometimes happen, but it can't be helped-. What kind of account do you have? I am using Gmail and it works really well when it comes to filtering spam -but it seems to attract spam too, my spam folder is always full, what I find kind of suspicious-. Good luck!
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• Japan
16 Oct 10
I have a hotmail account too, but I receive less spam in that account compared to Gmail. The spam filter works well too in hotmail, but Gmail filter seems to be a little more receptive when it comes to identify spam, at least in the case of my accounts.
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@Rallon (441)
• United States
16 Oct 10
I have heard that gmail is better at catching the spam mail as compared to hotmail. I don't know if that is true or not though.
@saphrina (31551)
• South Africa
15 Oct 10
I get anything between 360 to about 400 mails a day, sweetie. I hate that each and every day. The filters are suppose to stop those mails from coming thru in the first place. Who will clean this up each day? TATA.
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@vandana7 (100617)
• India
16 Oct 10
You are lucky. I get double that many!
@saphrina (31551)
• South Africa
16 Oct 10
I don't know how you cope with that, Vannie. I cannot cope with this lot. I just delete the freaking things.
23 Oct 10
Yes, I get quite a lot E-mails in a day. Awhile back I had all my dear friends from off mylot on notification and unfortunately not many post them now, as I get less and less each day. I get more updates off facebook now than I do here and I really wished that I had more discussions to respond too as I really enjoy this place and it seems slower these days.
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@Rallon (441)
• United States
23 Oct 10
You should start more discussions yourself! That way you don't have to wait for your friends to do it. That's a good way to go up in the ranks in particular interest areas. Thanks for responding! Have a great one!
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
16 Oct 10
I get about a hundred emails a day in my main email, mostly from myLot and surveys, MyPoints and other such things. It takes a couple hours to clear them all up and that takes up some of my morning. Then I visit the email when it dings as I'm doing my writing assignments and try to deal with them as they come. I don't get much spam, mail dot com is good about putting real spam away and leaving the rest in the inbox. I like it when the mailbox is empty! Then I go over to another email account and clear out the other surveys and emails that I make a few cents for reading. I have a few other mailboxes that I check a couple times a week. Email takes a lot of time for me but it pays off one way or another and it feels good when it's all cleared out!
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@Rallon (441)
• United States
16 Oct 10
That is a lot and probably a just a little more than I receive daily. I guess we should both start another email account and just use that one for signing up for sites.
@gcabando (313)
• Philippines
16 Oct 10
I clean up my email box by cleaning the emails regulrly and reporting those unwanter emails as spam. by doing this I could eliminate some unwanted emails and not making my inbox full.
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@Rallon (441)
• United States
16 Oct 10
Yes, I do the same everyday too. It is very boring to do and it has become quite the chore. ~ PS ~ Wow! That is some teeth!
@lumenmom (1986)
• United States
16 Oct 10
My email box does stay full, but a lot of the time it's my own fault. I sign up for sooooo many newsletters (they seem so interesting at the time) but then I don't have time to read them so I get annoyed when I see them after a month or two. I'll go through and do a lot of deletes and unsubscribes, but then I'll turn right around and subscribe to more. I guess I'll never learn!
@Rallon (441)
• United States
16 Oct 10
Yeah, these days just about every site wants you to sign up and get their newsletter. It can easily junk up your email and then sometimes it is a chore to unsubscribe.
@Ladyslipper (1327)
• Philippines
6 Nov 10
Hi Rallon, I feel the same way too. In fact, I'm doing the same thing now. I'm not really sure how those people or merchants are able to get my email address. It's very tiring cleaning my inbox. It's so unbelievable that sometimes I have to spend almost half an hour just cleaning my inboxes since I have more than email add. Urgh! I hate those nonsense emails.
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• United States
20 Oct 10
Mine is, most definitely! I get about 100 emails a day mostly from things I signed myself up for, this site and other sites I get paid from too. granted I do get the occasional junk mail, but once I mark it as junk it does not show back up in my email box. for the items that I did sign up for and decided to opt out, I hit the unsubscribe link, not the junk box. that takes care of things like that. I go through a couple times a week to clean up my emails and clean out my junk box.
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@Rallon (441)
• United States
23 Oct 10
What's even worse is when you realize that you have emails in your junk box that aren't spam but from people you know! I guess I need to be a little more careful about just trashing that box before looking it over.
@Memnon (2170)
17 Oct 10
Not today, but quite often yes. My junk filter is quite good, and probably 60%+ of my mail ends up there. The rest are usually myLot notifiers- or surveys, or invites from other discussion sites. These I often struggle to get through, especially if I have been away from my PC for a few days.
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@Rallon (441)
• United States
17 Oct 10
Yes exactly. If you take a few days or a week to check back on the mail it has overloaded completely. I wonder if I would feel the same if it were real mail in a mail box? Maybe I would get tired of throwing away trash the same way I tire of spam. Luckily I don't receive such mail as that would be very wasteful too. I guess email is much more environmentally friendly for such waste.
@pratikm23 (139)
• India
16 Oct 10
Yes i have my inbox full everytime but i use rediffmail and gmail. Rediff has unlimited mail space so there is no need to delete each and every junk mail.Gmail has a priority inbox feature. Its a new feature just check it out. It separates the clutter from the important mails. But definitely yes its a satisfactory feeling when i delete my junk mails , its just like making my room tidy. Have a nice day!!
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@Rallon (441)
• United States
16 Oct 10
Thanks! Never heard of rediffmail so I will check it out.
@wdiong (1815)
• Singapore
1 Jan 11
Nowadays, I check my email everyday so those emails which are of no importance or relevance to me will be deleted staight away. I do not even bother to open the message to it. I will periodically go through my inbox and delete unwanted messages.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
19 Oct 10
I don't know who your host is but all my junk mail goes into the junk folder except for some of my Yahoo mail. It's the Yahoo address I use to sign up for things and if I cannot remember what it is I send it to the junk folder. But I also get tonnes of unsolicited mail as well. You just need to manage your incoming mail better I think. It might take a little while but it will be great in the long run.
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@tonyllenium (6252)
• Italy
23 Oct 10
eheh..no normally my inbox is clean also because i will check it everyday and so it passes not much time from the last visit and i can clean up daily my inbox from different mails arriving to me everyday.
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@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
17 Oct 10
I always clean my daily and since recently, i've changed my email address and it's still new, there isn't much problem with the junk yet.
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• Philippines
7 Nov 10
Unwanted mails automatically go to my spam inbox. Now I receive fewer annoying mails. Long before, I labelled them as spam that's why I get a few unwanted mails in my inbox.
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@foofermen (500)
8 Nov 10
nah, I always try to read each one carefully. Ultimately, I just get frustrated, skim over the titles, read the interesting ones, and delete them all. I hate a messy inbox =P. I get survey invites and what not, so when I get around 20 e-mails, it is message genocide time lol
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