email explosion

[susancalvin]

I am terminally incapable of managing the email in my inbox. My Andrew mailbox currently contains 4,976 messages. Clearly, this is out of control.

Does anyone know a way to forward all 4,976 of those messages to Gmail so I can set up some filtering or something?

ETA: Ok, this seems to work. I recommend, however, spending a little time setting

Comments

[4thfromtheleft]

I am going to watch this space very carefully - I stopped managing my andrew email April 10, 2003. And let me tell you - no email client likes an inbox with 10377 messages.

[bryguypgh]

Just use a lightweight client like pine. I have 33k messages in one inbox and counting, and I can search them in no time flat for something someone sent me 2 years ago.

[4thfromtheleft]

I do use pine on occasion, but doing so behind NATs/firewalls (that I don't control) - with maximum TCP connection times of a few minutes - is a pain in the neck.

[medtecher]

I never could understand people like you. If I have more then 10 messages in my inbox (for either my Yahoo! account or my school account) I start to feel like the world is in utter chaos, and then I work desperately to remove messages either by replying or writing things in my calendar instead.

But maybe I'm just nuts...

[dlv78]

Do you find it ironic that MIT's page asks their students not to use those directions to spam gmail with thousands of saved messages? ;-)