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[…] I found a great article by Merlin Mann of 43 Folders on how to keep your e-mail inbox under control. There are a few people at the Law School I work at that have enormous inboxes… One individual has over 20,000 messages in his inbox.  One day I got a call from him because his e-mail program (Outlook) was crashing on him.  It turns out that Outlook does have an upper limit on the number of message it can hold in an inbox. […]

Quick tips on processing your email inbox By: Merlin Mann (40 replies) February 18, 2005 - 1:14am
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