12 gig of email is a seriously mismanaged inbox unless you're hoarding attachments too. I personally have a massive aversion to deleting mail because I always believe there is that one message that might get me out of the sh1tter in some edge case NSA/KGB/taxman/exGirlfriend scenario but.... 12 Gig!? That's like 12 copies of the encyclopaedia Britannica. Nobody is that interesting.
I get 30 mails a day and with minimal every-3-months basic management (10 minutes max each time) I keep it under a gig. This is not that hard. Chucking stuff out ruthlessly is actually liberating, and the converse is that keeping all this crud indiscriminately is tantamount to a historic drag on your life.
That said, maybe those new 6-gig spindles have a life after all...
I get 30 mails a day and with minimal every-3-months basic management (10 minutes max each time) I keep it under a gig. This is not that hard. Chucking stuff out ruthlessly is actually liberating, and the converse is that keeping all this crud indiscriminately is tantamount to a historic drag on your life.
That said, maybe those new 6-gig spindles have a life after all...