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Omnitech The "fact" that you refer to has a lot to do with the specific circumstances of each person's usage. Howarmat's email box appears to be very small for something that contains 1,000 messages. Neither is 1,000 messages a lot of messages: I know people who can generate that many messages in a couple of weeks, and that's just their own sent messages. With the amount of lists that lots of people are on these days, accumulating 1,000 messages in a mailbox is easy.*
Neither did I ever imply that "no one would ever want to sync old emails".
"Forever" or "unlimited" in data communications terms is very often not anywhere close to what most people think.
* (Last time I checked, a couple of years ago, I was getting over 1,000 junkmail messages every 24 hours. But these days I don't even bother wading through that stuff looking for mis-categorized junk. Impossible task. Luckily the junk filter I use is extremely accurate.)
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