28 at home, 44 at work. I like to keep my Inbox limited to what I can see on the screen without scrolling. Everything else gets moved to another folder or deleted.
15 at work (down from about 800 a week ago).
2 at the other job.
1 at home.
All the rest are filed, though some are in a folder called “pending.”
18 at work…all are flagged projects that I am currently working on.
0 in my Gmail account…I put everything into folders asap.
Just do a search for any e-mail whose date is before, say, April 8th, 2300. Using that method, I have 62,811 e-mails, which includes both sent and received since '97. (Any e-mail I have previous to '97 are in old Juno folders.)
As for my inbox, specifically: 28. That’ll be reduced by the end of the night; I typically filter my mail automatically, but the ones that escape filtering remain in my inbox until they’re answered. After that, they’re moved to various folders and the inbox usually stays empty.
9,936, but I recently moved 16,565 to an “old emails” folder, so I have 25K of searchable emails.
Why, I don’t know.
289 emails in my Inbox, over 250,000 going back nearly 10 years in other folders. I’ve been on some high-volume mailing lists over the years.
Three in my gmail at the moment. Usually, I sort through once every couple of days and file them away. I’ve just done a sort, and left the three there as reminders.
Count me with the people who clear it out regularly. I can’t stand to have stuff laying around. If it has been dealt with, it gets erased.
Current count for Inbox: 6
In all folders: maybe 30
85 in my hotmail account. All have been read. Most of them are emails that don’t easily fit into one category or another.
1922 in my work inbox, which is about a week and a half worth. Whenever it reaches 2000, I delete the 100 oldest e-mails, then as many of the biggest ones as it takes to bring it under 30MB.
I have 1,322 in my current In box, which is Jan 2008 to present. I have 30,563 in my In-Archive box, which is Jan 1996 to Dec 2007.
Wow, I feel unloved now. My hotmail inbox has 339 unread messages right now (and a number of opened ones). I’ll go through and clean it from time to time, but I had an online newpaper subscription for a while and got at least one e-mail a day from them, most of which I neither opened nor deleted.
I don’t really use sub-folders, except for e-mail from my spouse. Most of my mail is either kept in the inbox or deleted.
Just 42 at home, and about 20 at work. I ruthlessly delete, print out, or copy-and-paste into word processing documents.
495 in my work Inbox, but that’s only for miscellaneous ‘stuff’. I’ve got many many thousands files away in various subfolders.
4 in my Gmail Inbox
Wow. Some high numbers in this thread.
I’m of the “Inbox as to-do list” system. Any time my Inbox builds up, I start forgetting to take action on older messages as they gradually get buried. How do you folks avoid that, anyway?
Work: 8… no, wait… (delete, delete) 6
Home: 6
My system is any message marked “Unread” needs action. If I want to come back to something later, I mark it unread.
I keep all my old mail (back to 1996) because it is often useful for looking up old information that there’s no way I’d remember.