Subj : Then, once you paid
To   : Mindsurfer
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Nov 22 2025 17:04:21

  Re: Then, once you paid
  By: Mindsurfer to Nightfox on Sun Nov 23 2025 12:48 am

 Ni>> Gmail allows that too, even in their web version.  I have some old emails
 Ni>> archived in Gmail from 2008 too, and some that are even older than that,
 Ni>> I believe.

 Mi> I never used Gmail. i don't trust it and i don't think i could store that
 Mi> many emails incl. attachments in the free tier (15GB that you also share
 Mi> with documents and photos).

I've always used Google's free tier and never paid for storage from Google, and generally I've never had a problem with running out of storage. I generally don't like to keep photos & things in Google cloud storage. I can keep my own backups on my computer & on an external drive. Sometimes Google has automatically enabled Google Drive backups of my phone photos and then sent me notifications that my Google Drive cloud storage is getting low, and then I'd go remove the photo backups from my Google Drive and disable the Google Drive photo auto-backup. I've also seen archived emails in my Gmail from years ago with photo attachments, and I've deleted the largest of those, as I don't think I really need to archive those old emails that I've sent.

 Mi> if you don't care about privacy so much google really seems to have to
 Mi> best offers/tarifs if you need alot of storage for your emails.

I hadn't thought about the privacy issues a whole lot until recently.  I've thought about finding another email service provider, though I do like the Gmail interface (and its use of labeling emails), and I'm not sure yet if another email service provides that type of functionality.

I've been using Gmail since 2004 though, and I can't say I've been adversely affected by anything that was due to a privacy issue with Gmail.

Nightfox

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