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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by sam1r on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:39PM (#25296275)
Curious if one would even receive the notification emails prior to content deletion.

Once you hit the 15gb limit, you stop receiving emails within 24 hours. 2 years is plenty time versus "Hey. You are out of storage. In 24 hours, we're cutting off communication." [1]

[1] https://imgur.com/a/fBrlu4t

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by jeffbee on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:13AM (#25299237)
The one time I ran out of quota in Gmail, because Google backup for MacOS has a serious bug, I did not receive the notice because the same batch job that disables delivery for your account is the one that sends you the email. I didn’t get the message until a week later when I figured it out and deleted some photos. Pretty dumb.

Also, Gmail delivers an in-band message about your quota, but not in Inbox, Inbox for iOS, nor the Gmail app for iOS nor Gmail for mobile web. ONLY Gmail classic for desktop web. So I didn’t get those banners, either.

In other words I still find this quota system difficult to use despite the fact that I was the tech lead of Gmail delivery SRE for years.

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