<p>I just looked at my outbox and I’ve only sent 100 e-mails so far this year. I keep hearing that it’s normal to get more than that many e-mails per day. I’m really good at responding to e-mails, and will do so even if it’s not necessary, just to confirm that I received it. So the 100 sent e-mails is probably a good estimate of the number of e-mails I get that require my attention. But I feel like I’m doing something wrong to not be getting that many e-mails.</p>
<p>I’m a grad student and don’t have anyone working under me, and I’m not famous, so that cuts down a lot on e-mail. I also haven’t TA’d yet, which doesn’t help either. I’ve worked on some group projects for classes, but I’ve been using gchat to communicate for those. In general, I feel like I’m doing everything right and am keeping myself fairly busy. Is there something I could not be doing that I should be to get more e-mails?</p>
<p>Why on earth would you want more emails? I’m a grad student and I wake up with 30-50 emails a day. Do you understand how tedious it is to go through all of them? </p>
<p>If you’re really a glutton for punishment, get on listservs and join student and professional orgs. </p>
<p>I get about 400 or more every day – 95% of it is spam. Can’t ever seem to shut it off. If you sign up for message boards and listserve’s that relate to your interests, you will likely get a lot more emails.</p>
<p>I do not get many emails on my personal email account at home.</p>
<p>However, I received tons of emails on my company’s account. I have a hard time to catch up. I prefer I could read and then delete most of my incoming emails I do not have to keep. But I just could not catch up most of the time.</p>
<p>Do you delete your emails as much as you can or you almost never delete your emails like many of my colleagues do?</p>
<p>Somehow DS (still a student) has more troubles with his personal email accounts than the email account his school gives him. He asked us not to send any important email to his personal email account because he has troubles in keeping up reading emails in that email account.</p>
<p>As soon as you order something on line using your email account, you will be cursed along with the rest of us. </p>
<p>In the olden days I had an email account from a then popular provider. The spam was so bad that I started a new account on another service. However, I kept the old account and use it exclusively for ordering on line. It really keeps the junk mail out of my actual account.</p>
<p>Why do you guys hang onto all those unread emails? I delete a few every day. Plus I unsubscribe to anything I don’t need to be getting (from buying things, etc). Plus gmail’s spam-blocker is really good. I can’t imagine how someone ends up with so many new emails in their inbox. I like seeing 0 on unread emails. So when something comes in, I know it.</p>
<p>Deleting a “few every day” would not get me down to zero. I get 0 spam in my email- they’re all from professors, listservs (ones that are of interest to me), my bosses, the students I manage, classmates, etc. All ones I should probably be reading. </p>
<p>I have near 1,000 unread emails and I’ve only had this email for a year. I spend well over an hour each day going through emails but it’s never enough. </p>
<p>I absolutely understand how people end up with a lot of unread email lol. I have ditched several previous emails that got too much spam. I’m sure my old AOL account that I never use has somewhere in the ballpark of 30k+ emails. </p>
<p>I get a lot of e-mails in my personal mail from mailing lists I’ve signed up for alerts from social media, etc. But I don’t count those because they come to my personal e-mail address. I keep them around in case I’m looking for coupons or sales after I get them, but it’s too much work to remember which companies sent me which coupons and when they expire. So it’s nice to be able to search through them once I go shopping.</p>
<p>But I’m mostly concerned about my school e-mail. I’m on a few mailing lists there too, but I don’t think those really count unless I need to respond to something - which is why I only counted the e-mails in my outbox. Signing up for more mailing lists and spam won’t help with that unless I get e-mails I need to respond to.</p>
<p>And I know this sounds like a silly question, but I feel like I’m not doing as much as I should be - if I were, I’d be getting more e-mails. So I’m mostly worried that me not getting many e-mails is a symptom that I’m slacking off or something. But I’m not really sure how to fix that. </p>
<p>Oh please…OP. Your need to have more emails is beyond absurd. Did you used to feel the same way about snail mail? It sounds like your school email is being used exactly for its intended use. That is to get and send emails that are necessary.</p>
<p>According to OP’s posting history, he has started quite a few odd threads in the past. This is just one more on the list. I think he’s just lonely.</p>