Author Topic: Storing E-mails...how long?  (Read 3150 times)

Offline Gilligan

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Re: Storing E-mails...how long?
« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2016, 11:25:50 AM »
What does it cost you to keep those emails?

What could it save you if you had one of those emails when you needed it one day?

Do the math.


Offline Audifox

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Re: Storing E-mails...how long?
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2016, 01:28:23 PM »
I save the emails in the clients art folder with the specific job. That way if there are any changes or discrepancies you have a hard copy.

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Re: Storing E-mails...how long?
« Reply #17 on: September 30, 2016, 02:58:50 PM »
What does it cost you to keep those emails?

What could it save you if you had one of those emails when you needed it one day?

Do the math.

Ditto, I have to look up old emails fairly frequently, say 7 - 10 years... they some times have attachments that didn't get to the archives, and the like.

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Offline royster13

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Re: Storing E-mails...how long?
« Reply #18 on: September 30, 2016, 09:56:44 PM »
Been using Gmail since 2006 and have saved most everything since then...

Offline farmboygraphics

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Re: Storing E-mails...how long?
« Reply #19 on: October 01, 2016, 05:29:15 AM »
I guess I can honestly say that I've never had to dig back through emails more than a year, if that. We've been backing artwork up (reliably) for the past 10 years, before that on flash drives that we have dups of in a filing cabinet.
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Re: Storing E-mails...how long?
« Reply #20 on: October 02, 2016, 08:47:32 AM »
Been using Gmail since 2006 and have saved most everything since then...

Yep, same here. No reason to ever delete and they're all easily searchable. Super easy way to keep original client attachments in one place.


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Re: Storing E-mails...how long?
« Reply #21 on: October 10, 2016, 11:56:19 AM »
To illustrate our point of the value of keeping old emails:
I just bought new Norton Security Software (that can be a subject of its own).
$10 off with Fry's Promo Code.
$30 rebate
$20 upgrade rebate - The proof of ownership required was the thank you email from two years ago!
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Re: Storing E-mails...how long?
« Reply #22 on: October 10, 2016, 12:48:13 PM »
Avast man... free and rated #1