[jonknee]

I agree you should be able to buy more space (especially since you can with @gmail accounts), but what are your storing that adds up to so much space? I have 5,000 messages stored in my Google Apps account and it only adds up to 871MB.

[intlect]

I'm storing all my email since '03 (I had a major Outlook PST corruption and lost all mail prior to '03 before I IMAP-ed all my emails up to Google Apps)

It's just every single piece of email I've received or sent out during that time and while it also includes emails w/photos sent to friends and stuff like that, as well as work-related email, I want to keep every single one of those messages.

PS: Right now I have 68937 messages in my All Mail folder when checked out via IMAP and I'm using 23176 MB (90%) of my 25600 MB. And it's growing by about 1GB every month so I'm running out of time...

[jonknee]

You must do a lot more attachments than me--my All Mail folder in IMAP has 22,019 messages. Each of your messages is taking up 1/3 of a MB, yikes.

[intlect]

A lot of back and forthing of Word documents, some of them 10-20 MBs in size... but hey, it's work, I have to do it.