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ryangodammit

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#205763 25-Nov-2016 20:27
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Every six months or so my orcon mail server fills up, seems pretty small at only 1 gig.

 

I spoke to help about it tonight, and they said the only way to delete messages was by going through one at a time and deleting them off the server. This would take HOURS.

 

Is there not a simpler way?

 

I use outlook 2016, is it not possible to have outlook delete old emails as it goes and back them up?

 

I do obviously access the emails on my phone as well, so I guess I need some sort of server. But really, it seems like the clunkiest most un-user friendly system ever


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  #1677631 25-Nov-2016 20:30
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Use an email client like Thunderbird, sort by size, delete as a batch. With Thunderbird you can delete attachments without deleting the email. You can also drag and drop email from the server to your PC for archiving, but be sure to keep backups. Mailstore Home is good for this, back its database up to Dropbox, Amazon, etc.

 

Or just start using gmail.


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