This tip was suggested by reader Chem Dizzle, Esquire, after he spent a lot of time cleaning his Gmail Inbox. Gmail can hold a lot of mail. My own primary mail account on Gmail has not quite 1400 in its Inbox, and Gmail tells me I’ve used only 2% of the space they’ve made available for me. On a single page Gmail only displays 50 at a time, however. Chem spent a lot of time processing his entire Inbox 50 messages at a time because he overlooked the mechanism that allows every message in a mailbox to be selected at once. This is how it works:
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There are countless random emails floating around–forwarded from person to person to person–from pleas to send greeting cards to help a dying boy get into the Guinness Book of World Records to scary emails about cancer or random violence. (Oh, and don’t forget the get rich quick schemes!) Most of these emails cause an immediate reaction, because they’re meant to grab you with sympathy, fear, or greed. The problem is that although they sound convincing, they’re almost always fake.
There’s more than one superior alternative to Outlook Express, actually, and the best part is, they’re completely free. It’s not hard to be better than Outlook Express, which is well known for a history of security flaws that can expose your computer to viruses, poor handling of multiple email accounts, awful IMAP support, and a complete lack of spam handling features. I have a pair of email programs for you to try that deal well with all of those things: Mozilla Thunderbird and Windows Live Mail.