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When you start reaching the limit of your Gmail account space, it is time to delete some bulky emails. I use a simple search phrase that gives me all those emails having movie attachments (usually the biggest attachments in my email account), then simply go through them and delete those I don’t really need.

Here is the phrase that does the trick, you need to type this in the ‘Search’ box in your inbox.

has:attachment (*.mov || *.wmv || *.wm)

You can then substitute the file extensions within the search phrase to include other big files you might have in your inbox, such as mp3s, “*.mp3″ and “.zip”.

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