# What is the highest number of emails you've ever gotten in a day?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 17, 2002, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-emails-youve-ever-gotten-in-a-day/109513 "2002-05-17T07:36:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dieter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dieter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dieter)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-emails-youve-ever-gotten-in-a-day/109513/21 "2002-05-19T07:39:56Z")

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Around 180-200. All spam from [mp3.com](http://mp3.com).

I guess something happened to their spam-u-lator that day.

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-emails-youve-ever-gotten-in-a-day/109513/22 "2002-05-20T00:11:41Z")

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I once got 600 and some messages from a mailing list that I belong to in a 16 hour period.

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**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-emails-youve-ever-gotten-in-a-day/109513/23 "2002-05-20T00:59:38Z")

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40000+. I did it myself on purpose. I was testing a software feature I had written that would send emails to customers. However, for testing purposes, I changed the email addresses to my own.

Zev Steinhardt

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**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-emails-youve-ever-gotten-in-a-day/109513/24 "2002-05-20T01:00:23Z")

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One day I got 1400 new emails that were all the same piece of junk mail. Next day I had 800 more of the same.

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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-emails-youve-ever-gotten-in-a-day/109513/25 "2002-05-20T03:26:07Z")

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Maybe 10 or so a day.  
Around 150 once when I didnt check for about a week.

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