Comment by cxr
2 hours ago
"Five years ago" was 2020. What you're asking is, "Have you, at some point in 2025, needed an email from 2019, 2018, etc. (i.e. from some time before that)?"
The answer: Yes, of course. (And I don't understand why anyone other than, say, a university undergrad or someone younger should find that answer surprising.)
Near 50 and I can't say I need any email from 3 years ago; this is conservative, I'm probably ok with not needing emails from a year ago. Just like I don't need chat history either. What are you storing in your emails that you need to keep it beyond this? Genuinely interested. Genuinely have no clue why you'd be storing emails any length of time.