I love gmail and it’s spam filtering. I probably have about a dozen email addresses all pointing to my gmail account. Good for me, bad for my disk quota, so I like to clean it up from time to time. I was very surprised when two searches let me hone in on a plethora of disk-space-sucking email which freed up approximately 50% of my available space, the later of which didn’t really contribute but made me feel better.

Search for: has:attachment before:2007/01/01 and FW: before:2007/01/01

And wipe those suckers out. Happiness ensues.

You might want to backup all of your mail by downloading it first by configuring your own POP client.

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