Next week I will be embarking on an 11 day honeymoon in Europe with my new wife and have decided to completely unplug myself - no Internet, no email. One concern I'm faced with, though, is how will me email account survive without me pruning the leagues of spam from my Inbox? Every morning when I first logon, Outlook downloads 300+ messages, with 85%+ of them being spam. Of course, I don't see those spammy messages, SpamBayes does a wonderful job of scuttling them to the Spam Folder for me automatically, but my delimma is as follows: assume I get 5 MBs worth of email a day, with say 500 KB being non-spam. If I am gone for 11 days that's 55 MB of email (5.5 MB of email I care about). Now, say that my ISP limits my inbox to 10 MB, or even 25 MB. After a week or so, my inbox will be bouncing valid emails because it's overstuffed with spam.
Does anyone see a solution to this other than leaving Outlook running for the duration of my honeymoon? Yeah, yeah, I could use a service like Yahoo Mail (now with 100 MB inboxes) or my new GMail account (thanks, Ambrose!), but I have accounts with limited inbox quotas that receive the lion's share of spam and important emails... Has anyone encountered this problem before? What solution did you employ?