While I'm sorry for your loss, the idea of a cloud-based email account that doesn't delete your emails is actually pretty damn new. When Gmail launched one of

While I'm sorry for your loss, the idea of a cloud-based email account that doesn't delete your emails is actually pretty damn new. When Gmail launched one of its main features was the amount of storage space - people were used to having maybe 10MB of mailbox space. Companies competed over that number. It reflects that email was never seen as being permanent, you were expected to clear old emails out, and many services automatically deleted old emails.