On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Colette <[email protected]> wrote:
Is there a way to stop incoming emails for a period of time? > I do not think so, no. > I am away for 10 days and do not want to come back to an avalanche of > emails. I have an old computer. > The age of your computer shouldn't matter. All the emails are stored on Gmail's servers. A few things that might help: You can construct a "Filter" that processes all new emails received during your absence. The filter could either (A) Archive all new messages and give them a unique Label, so that you can go back and check them later when you have time, or it could (B) Delete all new messages until you return. I would advise not to do (B) because some of those messages might actually be important. Gmail has 15 Gigabytes of storage space so there is little problem keeping them around, just in case. Be careful about using a Vacation Responder, because it lets people know you are not home. Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
