After regularly admonishing Clients, family, friends, business associates, and anyone else who would listen about regularly checking their email boxes so that I don't get bounced emails saying something like "email box full," well, I'm embarrassed to say that it has happened to me.
I have many web sites and many email addresses, but they all forward to my main email at russelraypc@aol.com. I know, I know. I've still got AOL. Yep. I've been with them since 1994 and won't be leaving anytime soon.
But my email box at AOL is never full. The worst I've had was when ActiveRain quit sending email notifications for a few days and then sent them all at one time. I had something like 172 email notifications in the space of a couple of hours.
No, it's not my AOL email box that was full, it was my primary web site email box that was full. Little did I know that even if you forward emails somewhere else, the originator of the email forwarding also keeps them. So even though I have a quota of 500 MB for my email box, which I never in my wildest dreams thought I would use, well, I opened my CPanel and found 132,839 emails that have been forwarded to me, and kept, since I created that web site back in February 2008.
Not only do I have an overload of emails, but I can't figure out how to delete them all, and neither could technical support. So my situation has been kicked up to technicals support's technical support.
Moral of this story. If you have other email addresses that are forwarding to somewhere else, check those email boxes that are being forwarded to make sure they are not full and that you are not losing business.
Good to know. I also have multiple accounts forwarding to one main account. Never crossed my mind to clean out the forwarding accounts from time to time.
Well. guess I need to go and check a few email accounts today. Thanks for the heads up. No need to be ashamed, there my friend. Enjoy the day. You have just created job security at tech support! Good going to help the economy, Russel!
Too many emails can be a real pain. I tried using filters in Outlook and then sorting by what is most important. But the real solution is good old discipline to open and or delete regularly and not let them build up.
Very cute Russel, I'm bad about not cleaning out my email mailbox. I will take this as a reminder to do so at my earliest opportunity. Have a great day!
Well who'd a thunk it...we didn't know that! Yes, we have many e-mail addressess forwarded to one....am always cleaning that one up, but didn't the others were storing!! Thanks for the info...
Hi Russel, I used to have an email account that would fill up when I got a few photos sent to me. I was constantly cleaning it out so I wouldn't miss anything. Thank goodness I don't have to do that as much any more. Without email, my business would come to a halt! I'll have to check the email boxes that forward to my main one and see where I stand with them.
My husband Jon had a fellow advertising salesman whose voice mail was always full. I can't imagine how much business he missed. Jon sometimes couldn't reach him for days.
Hey, Lisa - You're welcome. Thanks for stopping by, and I'll see you are your place soon.
Hey, Anna - Zoey the Cool Cat has a list of about ten places where she is content, and she rotates between them every five days or so.
Hey, Troy - Glad my mess-up might help you.
Hey, Jim - I did.
Hey, Debi - The technical support guy who provides technical support to technical support got them all deleted.
Hey, Dick and Dixie - I'm always happy to help others keep their jobs. LOL.
Hey, Brian - I might need to do to my email accounts what my wise old grandmother always did with her house, and that's to go through it every six months and get rid of what is not needed.
Hey, John - The reason why I forward is because I have so many email accounts and really don't want to spend time logging in each day to all those accounts. That would take an hour just logging in and out, but I'll have to be more diligent in at least checking in once a month or so.
Hey, Carra - I was shocked that I had received that many emails since February 2008.
Hey, Liz - Get busy!
Hey, Al and Peggy - Yep. I suspect Canada email boxes work just like here in the States. LOL
Hey, Kathy - I can heartily agree with you on that one.
Hey, Susan - I once worked as a Consultant for a guy whose email and voice mail were always full. Then he got upset when I didn't have the information to him on time. I didn't renew my contract with him, and I told him why.
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After regularly admonishing Clients, family, friends, business associates, and anyone else who would listen about regularly checking their email boxes so that I don't get bounced emails saying something like "email box full," well, I'm embarrassed to say that it has happened to me.
Not only do I have an overload of emails, but I can't figure out how to delete them all, and neither could technical support. So my situation has been kicked up to technicals support's technical support.
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Thanks for a very helpful hint!