I am going to start posting Who Knew blogs every Wednesday for Who Knew Wednesday! Enjoy!
So, if you're like me you only two email accounts. A real one for personal and work email; and a fake one for sweepstakes, retail websites, free software trials, and social media spam. I check the fake one about once a week because you never know what might be in there (and I don't want to miss a good sale). I check my real one every...well all the time. It's hooked up to my iPhone, and it's the only tab on my Google Chrome that I never exit out of. One reason for this, is my occupation. I am a Realtor, and I sell and list property for my clients. My clients think I am available to them at their disposal 24/7. And I admit I am. Real estate can be very intense. I get emails, text, and phone calls till about 9pm on an exciting day. I usually don't respond after 7:30pm unless the matter is incredibly important (which in real estate, if you are contacting me past 8 then it usually is). If you're not like me, then you have three email accounts because you have a separate one for work and personal email. And, let me tell you, that is a grand idea. It's probably a better idea then having to sort through tons of work emails to find a Parmesan chicken recipe your mom sent you over two weeks ago. I don't know why, I didn't set up my emails this way. Well, actually that's a lie. I do. Once upon a time, I did have multiple email accounts for work, personal, and spam email. I had like 7. It was like I was addicted to setting up email accounts or something. It was very confusing. Emails were flying everywhere! Until one day, I thought this is ridiculous. Not to mention, I was getting complaints for non-responsiveness for emails I was receiving in an email accounts I forgot I had. Now, I like the thought of knowing where my emails are going to be at any point in time. If you are sending me an email, then I know where it is and how to log in (yes, 7 different emails means 7 different email addresses and passwords!)
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| That's 8,177 messages in one year... |
So the purpose of the blog post right? Yes, I am getting to that. Because I combine both personal and work emails, my email capacity limit fills quite quickly. I reach my max about once a year. With that being said. Previously, I would just get a new email address and let everyone know. However, just recently when this happened, I didn't want to get a new email address. I quite enjoy my current email address. It didn't have numbers in it (which so annoys me when the sole purpose is that someone else has my desired email), and it said everything it needed to say. No random words, numbers, underscores, or periods. But, how was I going to keep it....that was the question. I thought, well I will create a new email address, and just move all of my old email in there. Why not delete them all you ask? Did I mention I was a Realtor? We keep ALL correspondence. I can't even put into words how necessary this is. You would be shocked at the number of misunderstandings there are, and you must be able to correct them quickly. There is no he say, she say in real estate.
Once, I created my back up email address, I tried forwarding my old emails there, but soon realized that that was a bad idea. I have a Gmail account and you cannot forward more than one email at a time. I don't know why I thought I could. It's funny the things you realize you can't do, until you know you can't do them isn't it? I was furious with the Gmail system. I thought how on earth are they prohibiting this functoin!??? But, then I realized that I can POP my email into my back up email address. DUH....What a great idea! Some email accounts only allow you POP email up to certain date, but Gmail let's you POP them all. I was so happy and relieved. It took about a week to the let system pop all 8,000 or so of my emails. I didn't originally intend on POPing them all, but it was going to take wayyyy to long to look through them all, and only pick out the super duper important ones.
Now, I figure that I am pretty techie person. I know enough to do some pretty cool things with computers, so I thought, if I didn't know you could do this...maybe there are other people like me who don't know about this yet either. So, below you will find a step by step guide on popping your old emails into a new back up account, while keeping your current email address. I hope this helps!
How to POP Your Old Emails!!
1. Get a new email address. Yes, I know. The name part of it doesn't need to be super unique or special
2. Set your current email address to POP into your new account. Make sure you click to POP all old emails.
3. POP
4. Once you have POPed all of your emails, delete them from your current email.
5. Turn off POP.
6. And Wahla! A perfect CLEAN email account ready to receive all of your new emails.
Who knew!?
