Jim , What I do is have an Out Look grab ALL My gmail every Now and then , Then Take a Match to the Gmail box ( aka Delete EVERY thing !!!!)
then All your Emails are search able and Sortable , even when your Off Line ,
And YES that Has come in handy , as I have Blown Off Important Emails that I Needed to find .
It'll Proll take a few days to grab All yer stuff , and You Dont have to use Out Look

Search gmail with: "from:xoxoxobruce filename:wmv"

If i download them at home, i can't get to em at work.

Well I dont Know what to Tell ya , Exept Maybe a fat Thumb drive ????

why do you need to search all those old years' email, anyway? Is there info in them that could be converted to a better source?

I'M AN EMAIL HOARDER, OK?

no one to blame but yourself, then.

Can you put them on a disc?

so, today, I officially ran out of email space, and I can no longer send or receive emails with my google account. surprisingly shitty of them. I assumed that it would start auto deleting old emails.....

so i went and deleted all of my boobmail, and all of the porn i could find easily.... and got it back down to 92%, but it still thinks I'm full and I can't send or receive.

shitty. I could pay $5/year for an extra 20 GB.

if it's that important to you to keep all that old crap, then spend the bucks

Wow - you save A LOT! I have a ton of research on mine and I'm only at 6%
What the hell do you have on there?

Just pay the $10 a year for extra storage space and claim it as a tax deduction.