[clueless (OP)]

I'm sorry if this is too simple for You guys and gals, but this is extremely important to me, since I almost never delete my e-messages (usually a bit of text, prose, poetry), and I have thousands of them on my Gmail account on Google browser, and at least hundreds if not thousands on my cellular phone, as I synchronized later on (I guess I synchronized since I use Gmail on both computer and cellular phone). Can a lot of e-mail messages cause problems on Gmail on my cellular phone, or not at all, and even delete automatically many e-messages? Thanks.

[Eternal Student]

Hi.

I don't know for sure.   You'd have to read all of Gmail's terms and conditions carefully.   Details can vary depending on whether you have a free account or have paid for more space etc.   At a quick glance there seems to be a storage size limit rather than a limit on the NUMBER of emails stored.    So you could store many small emails but less emails of huge size.

   A glance at information on the internet suggests the storage size limit is about 15 GB - that's the free account specification but you can pay more to get more.    Let's assume you use your Gmail account only for emails and a typical email might be 50KB   (it's a lot bigger if it has attachments like photos etc.).    So you should fit  ~   300,000  emails  of 50KB  before the storage space is used up.   That's how much you could store online or "in the cloud",  some email software will also download some emails directly onto your device.   Note that if you use other Google services, like their online file storage for Google documents etc. this may share some of that 15 GB storage limit and therefore seriously reduce the number of emails you could store.

    In the old days  if you tried to send a new message to someones account that was already full, then the message would be returned to the sender with an added error message (e.g.  "this could not be delivered...... with some error codes / reasons").

    Overall, the good news is that having too many old emails stored online won't "break" your phone or device in any dramatic way - it just may stop you receiving emails from people who were trying to send them to you.

   FINAL NOTE and WARNINGS:    Some email providers don't enforce their storage size limits too rigorously.   If they have it to spare (and they usually do) they may let you go over the 15 GB size limit.   However, when you read the t&c  you'll see that they reserve the right to delete old messages or old files without warning if they ever needed to recover that surplus storage space they have allowed you.   What that means is that if you have gone over the 15 GB then some old messages are not safe, you could lose them at any time.      More generally,  you must read the "terms and conditions" for yourself -  the advice given above is personal opinion only and I can take no responsibility for the loss of any data you may experience  etc.

Best Wishes.

[Zer0]

Can emails not be Downloaded & stored in the computer?

But downloading thousands would be an Arrgh! task.

Converting them to pdf might be an Option.

But it would be game over if Adobe is Hacked.


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