> I think this would be a great idea. Many end users never bother to > delete old emails and on some, such as sales etc, there is no valid > reason for them to countinue to waste disk and server space. > > http://www.zdnet.com/news/should-emails-have-an-expiration-date/6197888
No since emails are now a large part of business processes and those business processes become your basis for legal protected, allowing the sender to say "x-delete: 24 hours" and then sues you for something for which you no longer have any proof would cause significant global catastrophe. The result of a scenario would consists of both Jesus crying and cats falling dead randomly all over the world. For the love of anything, if you want to delete your email, you do it. Don't let others decide for you! End of debate.