How Fast Can I Fill My Inbox?

Turns out: pretty fast, but not too fast.
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[@Kanar1e]

I was expecting a speedrun of signing up for newsletters and posting hot take comments with your email public

[@nikos.r]

Me too ... me too

[@soniccookie655]

Same. I enjoyed this, but I still really wanna see someone rush to sign up for newsletters en masse.

[@cliccaRoblox]

​@@soniccookie655same

[@snoopyhobi]

same.. i was a little disappointed when it wasn't

[@freespam9236]

i can say it takes a lot more effort than one might expect... newsletters need email conformation - slowing you down more than you expect also those emails do not have attachments... all images are links - so emails are REALLY small speaking from experience as i person that attempted i started from 2012 to show people that deleting emails in totally useless activity to save inbox space - especially on gmail currently the email box is at 357k+ emails with 11,81 GB of data being used up by emails i have stopped the experiment and deleted some as for some reason i like to use this meme email address from time to time

[@Maxjoker98]

Should add a disclaimer that this is a TAS ;)

[@xonabyte]

now do it manually

[@superaviation001]

@@xonabytetook me a week. If you want only bot related emails maybe half a week

[@besterspieler2285]

What is a TAS?

[@soniccookie655]

@@besterspieler2285Tool Assisted Speedrun.

[@emidblol]

@@besterspieler2285tool assisted speedrun

[@boffyb]

I think I know why each e-mail takes up more space than you expected. E-mail was originally specified to only send plain text, so attachments are bodged in by converting the binary files to text using Base64 encoding. Per Wikipedia, this “causes an overhead of 33-37%”.

[@zac9311]

Interesting

[@rkan2]

If only Gmail gzipped yo emails...

[@NathanOsman]

Came here to say this.

[@silicalnz]

Wonder if there's ways to abuse that encoding so the b64 takes up even more space.

[@IMJamby]

​@@silicalnz besides the canonical 1/3 overhead of base64 the only other overhead of the encoding is max 2 bytes for the padding for each encoding. That is, you should make different attachments each consisting of 1 byte that gets encoded into 4 bytes. Depending on the actual implementation, there could be an overhead also for the line breaks (which, incidentally, are present in SMTP base64 for some reason), but I'd argue that the multipart MIME encoding overhead of the different attachments way surpasses that line breaks overhead; not sure if the MIME overhead is accounted in the user limit, but I suspect it is not, given the empirical results showed in the video. TLDR: send more attachments in a single email

[@Nico-qq7xl]

this is why I quit sending emails too many sweats

[@delank4687]

lmfao

[@nj8833]

same, and everyone's using bots now. Gmail seriously needs to up their anticheats and nerf attachments

[@_gerg]

Gmail Speedrun 100% TAS (Glitchless)

[@oyoplayer]

Gerg?!

[@ngspace9829]

gerg

[@appakling]

no way

[@cosmnik472]

Hi _gerg

[@vermamaerodriguez96]

facts gerg

[@BobChao87]

472 emails in 471 seconds is actually EXACTLY 1 email per second, not slightly better. This is because of the fencepost error in which we accidentally counted the duration of the events and forgot that the first event takes no (or minimal) time. To use a simple example, if you had managed two get 2 emails in 1 second, it could be because of the fact that the first email hit at 0 seconds (by definition) and the second email hit at 1 second (ignoring the details of exactly how Google handles 60 emails per minute throttling, which is relevant to the example, but not in practice when dealing with continuous periods of time over 60 seconds in length). So if we consider the first email to have hit at 0 seconds in (which is the definition used in the video), then after 471 seconds, we added an additional 471 emails.

[@DeSinc]

0:00 is where the first second begins, and 0:01 is actually the start of the 2nd second. the final time of 7:51 ends inside the 472nd second, so it's 472 emails inside 472 seconds

[@Player-fg4ub]

you must be very fun in parties

[@HyperLexus]

​@@Player-fg4ubincredibly horrible take. he didn't pick apart a joke, he gave useful information that might be interesting to someone watching a DEV CHANNEL. you can't just spam this phrase everywhere and expect it to work. to the comment op, good info

[@ilirx1509]

@@HyperLexusyou must be very fun at parties

[@dawtonpessanha5521]

😂​@@ilirx1509

[@gingeas]

we got ranked email before GTA 6

[@DoppelTaken]

wtf hes alive i didnt know you could do that

[@angelcaru]

I mean we've known about "casual email" for a while now

[@ilikechess-22]

youve been gone for 2 years

[@blablabla798]

TBF the leaker will probably complete his sentence before GTA 6 releases

[@andronut]

my god it was unexpected seeing you

[@kamil118]

Sounds like fun but... I'm pretty sure gmail shares storage with google drive, so to fill your inbox you just need to upload 15gb file to google drive

[@whatusernameis5295]

it does lol

[@PrathamInCloud]

Bro decided to hack into the matrix 💀

[@jonathanz9889]

He's really running Any% glitchless, GDrive is too OP

[@illuminum8576]

Any% with Exploits

[@a70r]

You don't even need to upload it, you can be added to a shared drive and copy a 15 gig file to your drive, a TAS would probably be like 2 seconds long lol

[@herkulessi]

32MB instead of 25 might be caused by base64 encoding (which increases size by a third) because oft course SMTP is not binary safe

[@mathe42]

same thought. Base64 is 4/3 the size that fits.

[@jurgennicht4626]

Simple speak: Files get bigger when sent as an email. Yes, it is stupid. (Only while in an email. When you download them they are the small size again)

[@theairaccumulator7144]

@@jurgennicht4626 nah it's not stupid. Base64 encoding was made for sending binary data over ascii-only protocols. SMTP was made before we even had images to send, obviously it wasn't designed with it in mind. It's actually a really fine way of extending an existing standard without altering it.

[@roshibomb4247]

Out of curiosity: Is it fully stupid? Or is there some "smart" reason (say, security) for it to have been decided to be this way?

[@herkulessi]

@@roshibomb4247 afaic for historical reasons only. It's just the safe way to transmit non-text data (or arbitrary data where you can't know whether it is Text or not) via a system that was designed to transmit text only. But the specification might still mandate it

[@devdetour]

haha wheee i hope google doesn't erase all trace of me from the internet for this one haha really though :) let me know which enterprise software speedrun i should do next

[@iquemedia]

speedrun cancelling an adobe subscription

[@microwaveson]

​@@iquemediaimpossible%

[@LukaTV939]

not a speedrun but try making like the largest github repo ever (I just made it up pls prove me wrong)

[@samuelscheit]

You probably also could have uploaded a 15GB file to google drive to fill up your free google storage space which is shared with Gmail

[@YuxProductions]

Speedrun getting banned for using chatgpt

[@SodaWithoutSparkles]

I wonder if filling the email content with giant unicode characters would increase the size of the emails.

[@Nullmande]

You mean font-size:72 and higher? :O

[@Someone-gy2uw]

More likely, a bunch of "giant" i.e long unicode characters to take up a lot of space. We can only include a 25MB attachment but we should be able to fill the rest with a lot of characters to reach the other 25 megabytes for the max of 50MB per email. It might be possible to send 2 large attachments to fill that up, but I don't know if this is possible and I have not finished watching the video

[@GTAIVisbest]

Memories of overloading Minecraft chunks by writing books that were filled with a bunch of obscure and obnoxious unicode characters, then saving hundreds of them in chests in the chunk

[@masonhartnett9234]

Definitely would and I was surprised why he didn't think of this. I imagine that's because there is probably a character limit. But if we could fill up the entire body of the email to reach 50mb this would definitely be faster, I'm sure a character limit would make this impossible, but filling up to the character limit would definitely make each email larger. I imagine he thought of this, and there must've been a roadblock. Unsure why it wasn't at least mentioned though

[@livingfray2340]

I initially misunderstood "giant unicode characters" as meaning "increasing the font size of the characters" and was very confused as to how you thought that would help for a second lol

[@schulbus13]

I can hear the summoning salt intro music starting to play in the background already

[@cullenroberts3466]

This is why I quit emailing, too many sweats.

[@Leopold-stuff]

This video was absolute PEAK. Im subscribing right away

[@MaximusLongus]

1:14 Does Gmail only track the last sender when preventing forwarding? If so, couldn't you set up three mail boxes that forward to each other in circles?

[@mr.vladislav5746]

1:29

[@curtisclewett5249]

@@mr.vladislav5746 thats not what hes askig it is different

[@mr.vladislav5746]

@@curtisclewett5249 at 1:29 he explained that all kinds of infinite loops have been patched

[@schwingedeshaehers]

it will probably use email IDs/things like that

[@mr.vladislav5746]

@@curtisclewett5249 that was exactly what he was asking - at my timestamp the video author explains that all kinds of infinite loops have been patched

[@Saladddddd]

IS THAT A SONG THAT PLAYS WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER A CATERPILLAR??? That made my day, small internet world

[@douglascodes]

Amazon SES is a really useful service if you spend 5 weeks setting up the proper controls and testing before turning it into a production version. For small things, it is basically not the right tool.

[@somefreshbread]

so "Simple"

[@raniem4368]

please seek professional help

[@Johnnyvtg]

He did but they didn't respond to his emails

[@jglyons1447]

@@Johnnyvtg heeeeheeheheheeheeeeee bwahahahahahaha

[@ArchIVEDCinema]

Good thinking! Reaching out to Google's professionals should be able to help the community with this category!

[@AuTo69420]

WHERE IS MY UNLIMITED STORAGE, GOOGLE?!

[@zokalyx]

do you remember the unlimited google photos storage? good times

[@cyekaivy]

@@zokalyx it was to train their AI

[@bronkolie]

Who else thought he was going to subscribe to as many spam emails as possible with a Livesplit timer?

[@ari_archer]

time to self-host

[@rkan2]

It sounds so good, but self hosting email is more than a fulltime job... 😂

[@rkan2]

(If you need to send/receive emails from the big three...) Outside that it is not so bad, aside from spam.

[@everypizza]

hi ari i fully agree

[@cyekaivy]

heck yeah

[@NickBouwhuis]

@@rkan2 i host email for myself, my business and my clients. It is not

[@YHK_YT]

Remember, Dev Detour ISNT unhappy and loves life. He has NO plans of ending it soon

[@emilioschmidt2106]

About 5:02 I think it is because of the weird way attachments work in e-mail. Because e-mail must always be backwards compatible, emails only include text. Attachments were patched onto that, you must also convert attachment files into text. You might think: "I'll just convert the bytes to their responding ASCII character and send it after some attachment header" but email only supports printable characters, so bytes like 0x00 or 0x02 can't be written. That means there is some other clever, but not so efficient way to convert bytes to text.

[@deyesed]

Obligatory "What's Mind Goblin?"

[@kfin45]

Mind goblin deez nuts

[@tani6990]

not much what’s up with you

[@jarzz3601]

tldr: mind goblin deez nuts blank goblin or ________ goblin or as many mtg players have agreed mind goblin is a mtg card released in unfinity and is one of the cards responsible for all sticker and attraction cards being banned basically everywhere except commander. mind goblin is a sticker card that let you put a name sticker on it when it enters and as mind was one of the available names for on a sticker a lot of people refer to it as mind goblin as it adds mana based on vowels in it's name mind goblin is not the optimal choice but the funniest. Previous unsets were silver border which means they weren't allowed to be played outside of unset draft and that didn't make wotc enough money so to try and sell the set to commander players they instead made the cards black border and any cards that went too far were given an acorn to denote they were illegal which wouldn't be too bad if wotc didn't have promos of some of the cards with and without acorns and when the set released some cards were misprinted with the acorn when not supposed to have it and without when they were supposed to have it. A little while later players figured out mind goblin was actually a pretty powerful goblin card with the right sticker sets you could guarantee go at least neutral on mana and sometimes positive so it started seeing play in legacy and in pauper all that glitters started seeing play as you need a sticker deck to play mind goblin and an attraction deck to play all that glitters you were at a competitive disadvantage not bringing that deck as it told people you weren't playing the deck which eventually lead to wotc admitting the cards weren't supposed to see play outside of commander and banning them in not only legacy but also vintage which is a great dishonour you have to be a true design mistake to be banned in vintage and the first vintage ban since 2020 when lurrus was banned which is a whole different bag of design mistakes

[@creedolala6918]

mind goblin deez nutssss? also: you like Wendy's?

[@GodDamnitTwitch]

Love that you used the caterpillar song, that always gets stuck in my head

[@KitPlaysLess]

im impressed at your ability to make many accounts without being yelled at for a verifying phone number needed to keep the email alive

[@hoeist1729]

so this is where all the good email addresses are going

[@kevintrigg3707]

I must admit, when I clicked on this video I thought it was going to be about signing up to as many email lists and spam phishing emails as possible. Still interesting and watched through!

[@thydimov9909]

Hell yeah, man. Keep up the good work!

[@samevans4834]

4:04 Unexpected factorial

[@Proferk]

0:42 the math is wrong. There no need to multiply by 60. If you multiply by 60, you'll end up with 5 hours instead of the 5 minutes shown.

[@messywill]

15000MB/50MB * 1 seconds = 300 seconds. They were close but not quite.

[@awesomelink2347]

And it's wrong anyway because 15 GB is 15,360 MB, not 15,000. 15,360 / 50 rounded up is 308, so it would be 5 minutes and 8 seconds as the theoretical fastest time.

[@mollthecoder]

​@@awesomelink23471 giga = 1000 mega, as defined by SI

[@JeremyMartens-b7z]

​@@awesomelink234715GB is 15000MB. 15GiB is 15360MiB

[@JeremyMartens-b7z]

It should be 15GB/(50MB*60per minute). And obv you have to multiply by 60, else you have no time reference. 60 per minute ~ 1 per second. So 50MB/s is 3000MB/minute, so 15000MB/5minutes

[@Flokkypoo]

Was expecting the 472 gmail accounts all sending 1 email in 1 second ha! great vid!

[@jamess1787]

The extra space is because of BASE64 ENCODING. Youre welcome.

[@pinaz993]

What you need to do to increase the email size is make ~2000~50 gmails and forward the email until the message is at the maximum size.

[@tangentfox4677]

Ah yes, a billion dollar company unable to do the only job it does, sounds familiar.

[@Xisansia]

There isn’t actually a hard cutoff. I’m about 6gb over and they keep giving me

[@gooseheresy7076]

I love you dev detour. Never stop uploading these are so much fun

[@3oI8kinG]

"it was very late so I went to bed" clock shows 9:30PM, next scene 9AM the next day, you really grinded for this video huh? respect

[@gaelincho]

4:53 the small text…

[@elfeo47]

😂😂😂

[@kachow5830]

Good catch

[@pyqio]

On SES vs. Gmail: Sending an email through SES is slower because AWS routes requests through multiple APIs, using the public internet to query GCP, which increases the steps. On the other hand, Gmail is faster since everything stays within Google's infrastructure, so emails don't leave their network. At worst, emails might be in different data centers, but still within the same private network. Using different IPs for each email account might also help avoid anti-spam filters and slightly speed up email delivery.

[@erikkonstas]

Nah this wouldn't explain "multiple hours delay", they probably just have "experiences" of SES, guided by spammers, often scammers, bombarding people's inboxes...

[@borstenpinsel]

I remember when the inbox capacity would grow by the minute. You would receive a large email and the next day you had not free spacec than before. We thought it would grow forever 😅

[@erythrodysesthesia]

oh so YOU'RE the reason i wasn't able to register chronicligma

[@marijncat6711]

i just cleaned my gmail all the way as fast as I could, using an autoclicker. Then I get this recommended as soon as I open KZbin. I love how people, especially software devs, will do anything just to see if they can

[@Shnatsel]

at 4:40, the increased size is probably explained by the attachment being base64 encoded. That's how they made attachments fit into the originally plain text email protocol, at the cost of the size being increased by 1/3rd.

[@TheManchineel]

Attachments in email are base64 encoded and thus take up more storage than you'd expect

[@MooImABunny]

this is delightfully stupid, I love it. please do more

[@qMaxLMAO]

This is such an underrated video, you only got 24k subs, you deserve more!

[@James2210]

Just try setting up 3 emails forwarding in a loop

[@mr.vladislav5746]

At 1:29 he seems to explain that all kinds of loops have been “patched” by Google

[@totalkaos2]

"i bet we have flying cars by 2024!" Us in 2024:

[@outoftime9071]

Next time, fill up your inbox only using newsletters or some signup and nothing else. You can't send mail, only receive mails from places that aren't yours...

[@juliand665]

The domain at 7:43 genuinely cracked me up!

[@alexandrecolautoneto7374]

Add 20 MB in the body.

[@KastanDay]

great stuff. Nothing like project based learning to find the limits of SES and GMAIL cooperation.

[@CrispyGFX]

'You absolute SERF'.

[@Sevicify]

Being GMail it shares its storage space with Google Drive, so you could cheat by uploading large files to your GDrive to use up space. An easy way of doing this is uploading a reasonably sized file and making copies using the built-in "Make a Copy" function on the Drive which will just take seconds even for multiple GB files, doing a fewer larger files at once will also be quicker than doing more smaller files of the same overall size.

[@patrickbuswell]

Can't wait to see you on Summoning Salt!

[@wardenpotato]

Wouldnt a 25mb body be exactly what you need to compliment a 25mb attachment?

[@meeyoo3631]

Just get a video that is 15gb and connect the google account to google photos. Then the video will upload and the 15gb will be full in less than a minute

[@zacha28]

Call me crazy, but can't you send an email with a 25mb attachement and 25mb of text? It already looks like it allows emails over 25mb, so you can probably get to the 50mb limit pretty easily.

[@danielthecake8617]

15 GB is the storage limit.

[@schwingedeshaehers]

i think the total of sending isn't allowed to be above 25MB before encoding. and the 50MB is a hard limit, and is after encoding

[@EightOneGulf]

1:23 isn't it possible to use 3 mailboxes? Box A forwards to Box B, Box B forwards to Box C, and Box C forwards it to Box A again. So a maillbox will not forward it directly back to the sender. Unless there is some forwarding history in the mail headers, this might work?

[@pierreCHT]

Developers : I'm lazy so i'm optimizing everything to waste as little time as possible Also developers : I've got some spare time, let's answer a stupid question nobody asked except my overthinking self

[@ArchIVEDCinema]

My go-to strat for filling my inbox is usually forgetting to attach the proper title sheet on my TPS reports

[@Alvi-911]

The best video to watch while I’m eating😂

[@RaianNSX]

We got Gmail speedrun before GTA 6

[@windowscolorful]

im actually filling my inbox a lot because i'm trying to get my account back 😭💀

[@SuperMichael996]

I loved the "mind goblin deez ..." reference :))

[@CorvetteC-rd6wu]

i mean you could just fill the 18mb needed with 18 million letters in the message body

[@andrewmcgrail2276]

Still watching the video so you may have addressed this or I missed it, but the reason why SES probably didn't work until the day after is that it's a spam prevention method. It's to prevent spammers from just signing up for email services and spamming users very quickly. They have to have the account for at least ~24 hours before email is actually treated normally. What you saw is that in action, there's basically nothing you can do except wait for a while and eventually it will start working.

[@hi12167pies]

Google wants to know your location

[@1cubealot]

But it already does

[@DamianSuicida610]

The algorithm is cracked

[@Hiarin]

new category of speed run just dropped huh

[@BSpencephoto]

3 weeks before this becomes a SummoningSalt Video

[@rns10]

Try Google API to first create drafts with attachments and just copy the draft emails if that is an option Then bulk send the draft email. May be that will again improve the speedrun time.

[@cinderwolf32]

Is that "song that plays when you encounter a caterpillar"?? Sick beats

[@Turnip_]

Back in Highschool I used Microsoft's power automate to send 10k emails (Microsft 365's limit) to other students each day. I wish I could go back in time and fill the cloud storage of all my friends with this knowledge.

[@SeanJonesYT]

I love the idea of speed running Gmail. Great video

[@garrettrinquest1605]

I wanna see this become a real thing. Maybe I'll give it a shot myself

[@reubendeeley3830]

Im actually so glad to see a speedrun that is interesting, and wastes googles time and data

[@kreuner11]

4:56 This is likely because attachments must be ASCII encoded before sending, due to historical reasons

[@Zarkator]

Hearing rumors of cc skip in the community, cant wait for sub 4

[@Fripplingakarhano]

Like 100 years of light bulb power lol

[@jama211]

I'm a developer and I am lazy and an extrovert. We exist!

[@matteopro2]

Me sipping on that 500mb email storage on proton:

[@verden3642]

email bomb explained to masses

[@SamCyanide]

I remember when i made my first gmail account in 2009ish they had a ticker saying how much storage youd get, and it was like 7gb or something. Seemed like more than you would ever need for email. I remember if you signed up at a certain time, later on that number would be higher so you would have less capacity in your inbox versus if you signed up later. But then we all got like 15 GB or something. I don't remember the exact number that they do right now. But I'm close to filling mine as well. Guess I'll have to start archiving some old stuff.

[@kezif]

Your google photos, drive and mail storage are linked. So its possible to fill drive with very large (compared to 50 mb) files faster

[@ats1995]

Microsoft 365 can be configured to support a lot larger attachments

[@RzariRzari]

0:42 - You can get 1 mail per second so it's actually just 15 GB / 50 MB which is 300 (in seconds)

[@Sponta_]

Google had to pay for more storage than usual and now they want to know where you live

[@alexandery9436]

This is such a fortunate coincidence, I was just learning about the gmail API! How did you create multiple gmails without having to use two-step verification for a web app password?

[@Irsu85]

Minor problem, this isn't allowed on the main leaderboard because this is actually TAS

[@DavidSikesII]

IT'S THE SONG THAT PLAYS WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER A FULL GMAIL INBOX!!!!

[@sshhacker]

❌ Filling up your inbox ✅ Getting banned from Gmail

[@GlenBeebe]

Seek professional help to tell them you made a banger of a video

[@matteopro2]

I don't think google was happy with you taking up space

[@mawa8597]

By the way, the extra message size comes from the conversion of attachments to Base64.

[@jarzz3601]

RIP mind goblin

[@OmegaRejectz]

Now this! Is quality content.

[@LlywellynOBrien]

Clearly the better approach is to see how fast you can hit 15GB without sending anything. Purely using newsletters, spam, leaking the email address etc.

[@verebellus]

my first thought you mention forwarding is that instead of 2 mails sending back and forth, a 3rd mail to make it a triangle and a circle of forwarding