# Too much email?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-much-email/318090
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 22, 2005, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-much-email/318090 "2005-08-22T11:36:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2005, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-much-email/318090/1 "2005-08-22T11:36:41Z")
Did you know that if your email inbox is overfull, new email can’t be delivered?
I’m not looking at anyone in particular, of course – but someone here just didn’t get a recommendation to go see “The Aristocrats.”
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### Author:  [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2005, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-much-email/318090/2 "2005-08-22T11:44:27Z")
[Johnny Carson] I did not know that. [/Johnny Carson].
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### Author:  [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2005, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-much-email/318090/3 "2005-08-22T12:20:35Z")
I knew that. I don’t know that I’ve ever not gotten e-mail because of it- but I’ve gotten nasty warning e-mails telling me that my inbox was overfull. The thing which was annoying was that it generally happens when someone decides to send a bunch of digital pictures without warning, and my inbox goes from being 40% full to 110% full. (Especially likely when the sender of the pictures sends them TWICE.)
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### Author:  [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2005, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-much-email/318090/4 "2005-08-22T13:00:33Z")
> [@Eureka](#):
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> IThe thing which was annoying was that it generally happens when someone decides to send a bunch of digital pictures without warning, and my inbox goes from being 40% full to 110% full. (Especially likely when the sender of the pictures sends them TWICE.)
That would be my dad. Who then follows it up with another email, telling me my mailbox is full. :smack: _Then_ he calls me, to tell me my inbox is full and I need to delete some mail.
I’m thinking of getting a separate email address just for dad to write to. Problem is, he checks mom’s email for her, so he’d soon figure out that I had different addresses for both of them, then his feelings would get hurt.
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### Author:  [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-much-email/318090/5 "2005-08-22T13:49:05Z")
I did know that.
What I didn’t know until recently was that, at least on our server, (1) when the mailbox is full, you can’t even _send_ e-mail, and (2) when this happens, the unsent mail is stored in the Draft folder, and (3) the Draft folder counts towards the mailbox quota. At least I think that’s what happened - I lost a couple days’ worth of e-mail until I found the unsent messages (with 40MB attachments) lurking in the Draft folder and filling up my mailbox. It’s a Microsoft Exchange server.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-much-email/318090/6 "2005-08-22T13:53:18Z")
> [@Campion](#):
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> I’m thinking of getting a separate email address just for dad to write to. Problem is, he checks mom’s email for her, so he’d soon figure out that I had different addresses for both of them, then his feelings would get hurt.
You could switch your mom to that address, too.
Of course, then you’d have to switch any siblings you do the “cc” thing with.
And then …