I'm obsessed by reducing my email box

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OP, what email provider do you use?

And what types of emails are you looking to manage? Personal? Promotional? Social media?

You need to be ruthless about deleting.

Also, if you're getting a shitton of Junk mail, both "Unsubscribe" AND have emails from said spammers flagged to go directly to Deleted Items.

If you get overwhelmed, just do 15 minutes a day. It's worth the peace of mind!

It's not a life's work reducing your email inbox. Or shouldn't be.

For legit (though unwanted) commercial offers, unsubscribe where possible. If not possible, mark as spam and to block sender.

Block rather than unsubscribe anything from a suspect source, either fishy looking or something you cannot imagine how it arrived to you. suspect and unsolicited. (If it's at all dubious looking or you cannot imagine how it came to land in your mailbox, block -- "unsubscribe" in that case be cutting off the head of Hydra, only multiplying your unsolicited mail.

Be ruthless as R3 says, there's no reason you should receive twice monthly offers for an online subscription to Conde Nast Traveller. When in doubt, toss it out. If you change your mind, you know how to find them.

Use Gmail options to sort mail by type: bills, etc. It's an easy way to identify sources of lots of unwanted mail. You probably don't want four emails a week from a grocery store: unsubscribe. But if your HVAC system technician emails just once a year to suggest a service call, mark it as a favorite correspondent. Flag important emails and senders that you will always want to pay attention to -- it simply sorts things.

I keep stuff in my inbox thinking I’ll go back to it but it just sits there for years

I have 28,820 unread emails. What’re you gonna do?

That would make me batty, R6!

I hear you OP, stick in there. I was obsessed too and went from 30k emails to 2000. I get about 75 spam emails a day, and hadn't been on top of deleting them for a good four years. It was just too much every day. My trick was doing a keyword search on the biggest offenders and just deleting them wholesale in one swoop. That helped take out huge chunks at a time.

My BIGGEST problem now is that I get junk mail that you cannot unsubscribe from. The gmail auto-unsubscribe just bounces back. And I can't block the emails either because the are from different accounts every single day. I don't know how to block key words even though people say it can be done. TruGreen is the biggest offender. You can tell the "unsubscribe" button at the bottom is fake and just opens up a spam website where your address is probably harvested for more emails. The latest scourge is emails from "Swollen Legs" and "Endurance Auto Repair."

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What I saw.

[quote]I have 28,820 unread emails.

I had a panic attack just reading that.

90% of my email is junk but I have to go through it to make sure it’s junk