You probably get tons of unwanted emails, but unlike physical mail that can literally fill your mailbox until you dispose of it, you can let unread emails pile up forever. Don't let that happen to you.

Here are four steps to take to tame that burgeoning backlog. Rachel Figueroa has 15,000 unread emails and two certainties: 1) The number will go up, and 2) she will never open most of them.

Email has been a regular fixture in our lives since the mid-to-late 1990s, with many of us having many different inboxes to manage from personal and work to organizations and side hustles.Our email life can become overwhelming and even exhausting, and it definitely requires some effort to maintain it, but what that effort and maintenance look like varies drastically from person to person.

Are you overwhelmed by emails and struggling with email overload? This guide offers practical tips for managing email effectively, whether you're using Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo Mail. Learn how to manage emails and regain control of your inbox with Clean Email.

If your inbox has a billion messages—even unread, to make it more difficult—this guide will make reaching inbox zero feel much more attainable.