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They stop your gmail from receiving inbound emails if you don't pay to upgrade for storage [15gb]. Within 24 hours! I just reached that, and the first alert I

by sam1r 6y ago

They stop your gmail from receiving inbound emails if you don't pay to upgrade for storage [15gb]. Within 24 hours! I just reached that, and the first alert I see on my email [1] feels quite threatening. It's like I came home, and there's an unexpected eviction on the door. IMO, this is way worse that account inactivity. Who remembers that ever-increasing ticker on the gmail homepage that advertised "Your storage with us is always growing", and it was like 10gb + the counter was increasing live. Ridiculous. [1] https://imgur.com/a/fBrlu4t https://imgur.com/a/fBrlu4t

karmasimida 6y ago
This is reasonable. Delete some filter emails won't take you 10 minutes
- sam1r 6y ago
  Agreed. Just more peeved that it upon registration, this would be the last exit I would have imagined from the product. The marketing to acquire users versus to keep them is annoyingly polarizing. >> Hey! Free growing memory. Choose gmail! Look! A counter that is incrementing in the browser real-time! >> Much later... Nope. You reached the limit + we stopped your emails from coming in. Goodbye. I'm definitely on the way out, just have been lazy about it.
- dash2 6y ago
  It's not that easy. I have 15 years of emails, including deeply personal stuff. I've deleted all the unread mailing lists. I've deleted the big files. I've gone through numerous social and advertising emails and mass-deleted. Yet I'm stuck on like 14.98 Gb and every time I hit the threshold, Gmail starts bugging me to do more. How can I even tell if I have that much email? They could just be saying "oh, you have 14.98Gb".
  - Kye 6y ago
    Did you empty the trash? Trash counts. Same for Drive.
  - avtar 6y ago
    > How can I even tell if I have that much email? You could fetch everything using IMAP and check size locally.
  - sneak 6y ago
    If you have deeply personal stuff in your email box, you shouldn't be storing it unencrypted in gmail forever where they can give it to the state on demand without a warrant at any time.
  - rasz 6y ago
    You have deeply personal emails that are the size of 1/3 of whole Project Gutenberg library?
adav 6y ago
Thank you for alerting me to this! I'm not sure why, but the impression I've had since those early days of gmail was that users would be unlikely to ever need to delete an email again
anaganisk 6y ago
How is it unexpected, you pushed your inbox to limits, its not like it happens overnight, if you think google is lying use an IMAP client and check it yourself, also google storage is spread across all the services, check if you are backing up your phone or photos(unknowingly).

by sam1r 6y ago

karmasimida 6y ago

This is reasonable. Delete some filter emails won't take you 10 minutes

sam1r 6y ago
Agreed. Just more peeved that it upon registration, this would be the last exit I would have imagined from the product. The marketing to acquire users versus to keep them is annoyingly polarizing. >> Hey! Free growing memory. Choose gmail! Look! A counter that is incrementing in the browser real-time! >> Much later... Nope. You reached the limit + we stopped your emails from coming in. Goodbye. I'm definitely on the way out, just have been lazy about it.
dash2 6y ago
It's not that easy. I have 15 years of emails, including deeply personal stuff. I've deleted all the unread mailing lists. I've deleted the big files. I've gone through numerous social and advertising emails and mass-deleted. Yet I'm stuck on like 14.98 Gb and every time I hit the threshold, Gmail starts bugging me to do more. How can I even tell if I have that much email? They could just be saying "oh, you have 14.98Gb".
- Kye 6y ago
  Did you empty the trash? Trash counts. Same for Drive.
- avtar 6y ago
  > How can I even tell if I have that much email? You could fetch everything using IMAP and check size locally.
- sneak 6y ago
  If you have deeply personal stuff in your email box, you shouldn't be storing it unencrypted in gmail forever where they can give it to the state on demand without a warrant at any time.
- rasz 6y ago
  You have deeply personal emails that are the size of 1/3 of whole Project Gutenberg library?

adav 6y ago

Thank you for alerting me to this! I'm not sure why, but the impression I've had since those early days of gmail was that users would be unlikely to ever need to delete an email again

anaganisk 6y ago

How is it unexpected, you pushed your inbox to limits, its not like it happens overnight, if you think google is lying use an IMAP client and check it yourself, also google storage is spread across all the services, check if you are backing up your phone or photos(unknowingly).