Mayor Adrian Fenty on Monday ditched his plan to trash most government e-mails older than six months after members of the D.C. Council raised objections.

Fenty, who carries three BlackBerries and does much of his work by e-mail, cited the cost of storing millions of seemingly unnecessary e-mails when he first issued his executive order in July. Under the policy, the Office of the Chief Technology Officer was to store all e-mail on D.C. government servers for six months before deleting them “automatically and permanently.”