SaustrupI've run my own mail server for decades, and due to a mix of unfortunate circumstances, bad choices and no backups, I have now lost those decades of email. Of course it's annoying to have lost recent mails, mostly because I run a business and need things like invoices and shit for my accounting. But it's also weird to have lost the archive. Messages to old friends and girlfriends. Weird blind dates. Friends saying hi. My first emails with my wife. People sending me photos. All gone. It fucking sucks. Or maybe it's a fresh start. I'm not sure.
How about you? Do you keep emails around for ages? If so, why? Time capsule? Weird obsession?