That sounds like storage on the Gmail server. A lot of that gets weeded out by
Google (trash, spam, etc.) You can set the Mail client not to leave messages
you download on the server.
As for storage, I use Time Machine backup. I have had to restore mail folders
from it once, but it works pretty
Ok, thanks for that info.
I just hit command-shift-M to show my mailboxes, then command-I to look at
info. My quota limit shows I'm using 1.24GB and I have 10.74GB to use in
total. Does this mean on my Mac, or on gMail server?
It's a pretty cool area, it shows how much each folder contains.
Not sure I would worry about it. Compared to modern computer disk space
it's probably not worth your time to weed out mail all that much. For
example, your email was about 8k of text. That means if I get 50
simmilar messages in a day we have 400K. At that rate, a full year would
take about 150M
How do you guys deal with mail msg storage?
I understand the benefit of storing my msgs on my mac with spotlight and all,
but is there a way to keep an eye on how much space they are taking up?
I'm tempted to just not store any of them. After all, this is what I'm use to.
The messages I'm int
