Do you delete your e-mails?

@nikky28 (1572)
India
March 7, 2009 6:45am CST
The other discussion about emails made me wonder if you all delete your emails or keep them stacked like the way I do. Now-a-days emailing services like gmail, offers very high storage capacity. I keep certain information in my mail as a back up too. My bf on the other hand deletes all his mails after he is done reading it and says that he keeps a good e-hygiene lol I have about 6 email accounts lol, 2 of which I use regularly, my primary email contains about 5421 emails in my inbox haha I'm not kidding lol. How many email accounts do you have and do you delete the emails often?
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51 responses
@chookie1971 (2271)
• Australia
7 Mar 09
Oh my goodness. that is alot of emails there. At the most I have around 200 sitting in my email account. I prefer to delete them when I can. At least I still have space in my email account
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
7 Mar 09
lol my account says that I am currently using 6% of the total available space.
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
8 Mar 09
haha yep, God bless gmail lol
• Australia
8 Mar 09
wow. even with all those emails. wow.
@aisaellis22 (6445)
• United States
7 Mar 09
Hello nikky28! I only one email address and I always check it everyday. I usually delete all my unimportant emails such as notifications here in mylot (it's been a lot, I just can't save them all) and some spams. I just remained all those important emails to me.
• United States
12 Mar 09
what?2223 emails?OMG! delete it quick! lol! but honestly, you have two separate emails for your personal use and for business..hehhe
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
7 Mar 09
hello Aisa! I agree the notifications from mylot is quite a lot lol. I have it on my second email account and that has about 2223 mails the last I checked lol
@Mitraa (3184)
• India
7 Mar 09
I delete very few, but most of the mails I keep them as it is. Thanks for this nice topic and have a good day!
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
7 Mar 09
Thanks for the response Mitraa. Have a nice day!
@jwfarrimond (4473)
7 Mar 09
I only keep emails if I think that I'll need to refer to them at some point in the future. Even then, I'll quite often move the information that I want to keep somewhere else and then delete the email - particularly if the information on it is in anyway private. It's to easy for hackers to get into an email account and also if your computer happens to get stolen it's not a good idea to have sensitive personal information in an unsecured email folder.
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
8 Mar 09
You have a good point. It could be hacked and information can be leaked. Thanks for the response
@cndn420 (2062)
• Canada
7 Mar 09
wow, 5421?! thats insane LOL i have 2 email accounts, but i only keep the important emails, otherwise i'll read them and then delete them. plus i have folders for different emails like ebay, paypal etc...so i put any emails from them in the folders.
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
8 Mar 09
lol yep it is insane hehe
@j1106e (53)
• Philippines
7 Mar 09
OH my God!! really? 5,421???? thats a lot lol. I hate keeping mails thats not really needed. i delete mails after reading it if they arent necessary to keep.
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
7 Mar 09
lol you should see the faces of people around me when they see that number in my inbox haha
@gerald_lian (2188)
• Australia
7 Mar 09
For me, I'm primarily using Yahoo Mail for my emails. As now Yahoo Mail offers unlimited storage capacity for users, users who don't like to delete their emails can keep them as long as they like. I for one like to keep my emails, but nowadays there are just too much spam coming into my email inbox that I just have to delete because I just hate them lying around in my inbox. Other than that, I keep all other emails which I think have significance. It's always good to keep a backup of emails like you mentioned - you never know when you'll need it!
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
7 Mar 09
yes and backups on email can be accessed anywhere. I recently had to format my entire hard disk and I had the important docs on email as backups.
@athinapie (1150)
• Philippines
7 Mar 09
Hi there we are almost the same. I have more than seven thousand emails in my inbox. I haven't read all of them and for those that I have read, I haven't deleted them yet. I guess I am just too lazy to do that.
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
7 Mar 09
lol 7000 I don't think I would ever delete mine. My bf rolls his eyes lol
@regal_aeros (2605)
• Singapore
7 Mar 09
eh. i delete all the non-related and unimportant ones. i don't like it taking up my mailbox space though i have plenty of space. just a habit i guess.
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
7 Mar 09
lol you sound like my bf. His email is squeaky clean
@pengbubu (1011)
• China
7 Mar 09
I have more than ten accounts, they are Gmail, Hotmail, 163 and my company's. l63(neteasy) is very popular in Chinese, I have several accounts in it. I do not like to delete my e-mails, I keep them in mail box, and I can read it if I want. Now-a-days the mail service offers a large storage, so we do not have to delete because of volume.
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
7 Mar 09
hehe high fives pengbubu lol you beat me on the number of accounts record
@buggles64 (2709)
• United States
7 Mar 09
I delete the majority of my emails, since most of it is junk anyways. Sometimes if I get email from a family member I will keep it, but it's usually not to important so I'll end up deleting it as well.
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
7 Mar 09
yes it is good to delete junk, I just don't do it as there is a lot of space available and I am lazy
@jamsam (70)
• Uruguay
7 Mar 09
Hi, I have around 4 mail accounts ,where in one i have around 555 emails in other 3 i don't have more emails and i don't use frequently. I do delete some of my emails that i think is not necessary but i never delete all my mails specially my friends emails. Happy deleting emails............. Cheers ,
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
7 Mar 09
yep I always keep my friends' emails, well I almost keep all emails lol Happy not deleting emails
• Romania
7 Mar 09
i have 10 email accounts from wich 6 are just for creating accounts on diferent websites, i dont delete evry mail i have read from my other 4 accounts, once a month im cleaning my 4 accounts wich i use regularly, from the other 6 i delete evry day something :D
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
7 Mar 09
wow 6 for creating accounts! You must be having a lot of accounts then, atleast you delete them regularly lol
• Singapore
7 Mar 09
I don't delete my emails often, because i think it's just a waste of time. Haha. I have about 4209 emails in my inbox now. Haha.
@nikky28 (1572)
• India
7 Mar 09
4209 emails woot! Welcome to mylot
@ivbsav (193)
• Indonesia
29 Oct 09
I have about 5 active email accounts, but only 2 are the very active accounts I use to communicate, receive and send emails. When I receive spam mails, no waiting to delete it. Especially when the subject from fake paypal, hsbc and other job vacancies mails.
@arluling (27)
• China
15 Oct 09
I delete about 600 emails today. I have used my email address to register many account in internet. I can receive serval emails every day, I don't read the most of them and keep them in my inbox for a long time. I will arrange my emails when the ammount is very large just like today. I keep the useful emails and delete spam.
• United States
9 Jan 10
I have two main e-mail accounts and I have to delete spam everyday. I wouldn't delete any e-mail from my friends or family because there's a lot of space in my e-mail accounts so I usually just delete spam and other e-mails I don't need anymore. It's funny looking back at e-mails that my friends sent to me a few years go
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
10 Jan 10
Hi, nikky28. I have about 12 to 15 email addresses with Yahoo. Only two with netzero. and two with gmail. I will usually delete any email messages on a daily basis that I am no longer using. I don't like to have a pile of email messages in my inbox. It makes it very hard for me to find any messages and read them.
@Yori88 (1465)
• Philippines
12 Mar 09
I only have one email account. Before I got two, one from yahoo and the other one from gmail. Then I stopped using them because of spam messages in yahoo and I forgot my password and username in my gmail account. I am using only one now and my husband was the one who did it for me. I am very happy with the service and I notice that MSN puts spam and junk messages in their respective folders. I never keep emails that are not important. I always delete them when i think I won't be using them in the future anymore. I want a clean email and less messages in my inbox for easier access to important ones.
@mermaidivy (15395)
• United States
10 Mar 09
I have couple emails account, but I mainly use hotmail only and I frequently get lots of junk mail, I usually just select them all and empty it and mark them ohishing scam but I don't think that helps a lot.