[guessmyname]

Why thousands? You never read or delete all your emails within a day?

My inbox, which I have for almost two decades only has 28 emails in it. Not 28 unread emails, but 28 total emails. I delete everything within a day of receiving, except for every important things, hence why 28 of them still remain.

Keeping thousands of emails in your inbox, while virtually free, is an attack vector for hackers, and also a gold mine for advertisement brokers who pay email providers money to show you ads based on your daily habits.

[collabs]

I am not saying I'm right, I'm just explaining how it got this bad.

See I used to have 2 MB on my hot mail and 4 MB on my Yahoo! Mail. I used to do exactly what you said. Then, I got invitation to Google mail. 1GB and counting!

I got lazy. I no longer had to delete mail anymore. So, it started accumulating. There. That's the whole story.

[drfloyd51]

28 important emails in 20 years? Would the information in those emails had gotten to you via a different vector if you did not have email? This sounds like a case for not having email.

[kaonwarb]

OP is aiming to help a quite common problem. Curious: how many others have you met with as spare of an email inbox as yours?