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by alanbernstein 1483 days ago
My inbox is almost full, so they're hassling me about this. I did some investigation and found that over 1GB of the data in my inbox is email history quotes from a long-running email chain. Of course it's impossible to delete those without deleting each email they belong to.

Conspiracy theory: Google refused to implement an option to disable inserting email quotes in responses, knowing that such an option would make more efficient use of storage space.

2 comments

Text content of email is 0.

Quota is used by attachments, which Google refuses to let you delete, because they want you tomoay for storage.

Those email chains compress really well.
Yes but how is their size counted?