Inbox

The horrors of Dad's e-mail Inboxes are difficult to convey in words.  Notice the plural "Inboxes".  He has e-mail accounts in Outlook Express, Hotmail, Comcast, and Yahoo, all containing many e-mails from a hodgepodge of random sources.

Each of Dad's Inboxes has several thousand messages, most of which are marked as unread because even he can see that they are spam.  Nothing goes to the Delete folder.  The only time e-mail leaves the Inbox is when the hard drive crashes, at which time the Inbox for any local accounts is reset to zero and a fresh start occurs.

Dad has so much junk in his Hotmail account that he used up the free space and now pays Microsoft a recurring fee of $20 to get extra space.  If he just deleted 3 e-mails per month with large video attachments, 97% of his space would be reclaimed.