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> you would never run out of space You do see how that can't possibly applying to literally everyone, right? You can't use the argument that "they said it woul

> you would never run out of space You do see how that can't possibly applying to literally everyone, right? You can't use the argument that "they said it would grow with me" to store 1TB of emails and be surprised when they start charging you. 15GB is a lot. Even if you receive 5 emails with 1mb attachments every single day, that's still almost 10 years. With normal text emailed, you will never run out until you die. Most cloud providers give 5GB. It's fair to say that it has grown with you to a reasonable storage size. If you need more than 15GB, it's fair to say you're beyond that.

usr1106 6y ago
> With normal text emailed, you will never run out until you die. I have an account that received only LKML. So just text, not a single attachment. And all written by humans (although many of them and some copying.) The account run out of space after ~ 7 years of LKML. (Need to check whether the limit is really 15 GB. I think it stopped growing at 4 or 6 GB.)
- ehsankia 6y ago
  Well, it's 15GB shared with Photos and Drive, so if you do use those other products, then yes you do have less space total.
  - usr1106 6y ago
    I checked. It's really 15 GB of textual emails, from 2012 until December 2018 when it hit the limit. Admittedly I don't know many cases with such a traffic.
    - usr1106 6y ago
      So I cleaned up that 15 GB mailbox a bit. I had previously deleted all messages over 500KB in size. Still several millions of messages left (all from 2014 to 2018.) Don't even know how to count them, because Gmail counts only conversations. Maybe it can be done via IMAP or the API, but I'd expect hitting limits on the way, so I did not spend any time trying. The irony is that Gmail cannot delete more than a couple of thousand messages from Trash/The Bin in one go. It says "All messages deleted", but when you refresh you see that it's not true. You need iterations. I guess they are using something what AWS calls a lambda to empty the bin (don't recall the Google term) and that job hits a limit. Yeah, I don't use that mailbox for anything serious at the moment. Just an experiment...

usr1106 6y ago

> With normal text emailed, you will never run out until you die. I have an account that received only LKML. So just text, not a single attachment. And all written by humans (although many of them and some copying.) The account run out of space after ~ 7 years of LKML. (Need to check whether the limit is really 15 GB. I think it stopped growing at 4 or 6 GB.)

ehsankia 6y ago
Well, it's 15GB shared with Photos and Drive, so if you do use those other products, then yes you do have less space total.
- usr1106 6y ago
  I checked. It's really 15 GB of textual emails, from 2012 until December 2018 when it hit the limit. Admittedly I don't know many cases with such a traffic.
  - usr1106 6y ago
    So I cleaned up that 15 GB mailbox a bit. I had previously deleted all messages over 500KB in size. Still several millions of messages left (all from 2014 to 2018.) Don't even know how to count them, because Gmail counts only conversations. Maybe it can be done via IMAP or the API, but I'd expect hitting limits on the way, so I did not spend any time trying. The irony is that Gmail cannot delete more than a couple of thousand messages from Trash/The Bin in one go. It says "All messages deleted", but when you refresh you see that it's not true. You need iterations. I guess they are using something what AWS calls a lambda to empty the bin (don't recall the Google term) and that job hits a limit. Yeah, I don't use that mailbox for anything serious at the moment. Just an experiment...