To wean

the unix way

2. To detach from that to which one is strongly habituated or devoted

$ grep 127.0.0.1 /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 lemonde.fr liberation.fr rue89.com lequipe.fr alterslash.org aftenposten.no
127.0.0.1       www.lemonde.fr www.liberation.fr www.rue89.com www.lequipe.fr www.alterslash.org www.aftenposten.no

Deleting large amount of emails from gmail make your account unaccessible for several minutes.

My Gmail account has been too slow lately. As it approached 90% size, I tried to reduce its size, by deleting old mailing list emails.

I deleted 3 times more than ~50 k emails, and each time, my account became unavailable for several minutes (about 30), including through IMAP! Got several errors on the web page (16 or 17 and 67 if I recall properly).

You've been warned. Plan ahead if you try to do the same thing :)

Final words: I am now down to 57% gmail usage. Need to find or write a tool to be able to identify the culprits. Maybe some kind of FUSE IMAP file system to reuse something like baobab (aka http://windirstat.info/ for Gnome) ?