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Default Mail Quotas
What Mail Quota Includes
Stay Under Mail Quota!
How to Reduce Mail Disk Usage
Mail Quota Warnings
How to Check Your Mail Quota
Default Mail Quotas
This table shows the default mail quotas:
| Group | Warning Level | Mail Quota |
|---|---|---|
| Faculty and staff | 800 Mb | 1 Gb |
| Graduate students | 400 Mb | 500 Mb |
What Mail Quota Includes
Quota on the mail server includes both your Inbox and all your IMAP folders, including mail in your Trash folder, and mail that has been marked deleted but has not been expunged. It does not include anything in your account's home directory.
Stay Under Mail Quota!
It is very important that you keep your mail disk usage under your quota. If your mail disk usage goes over your mail quota, any mail sent to you will not be delivered. Instead, it will bounce back to the sender, with an error message. Therefore, it is in your best interests to keep your mail disk usage under your quota.
How to Reduce Mail Disk Usage
For information about reducing your mail disk usage, see Reducing Mail Disk Usage.
Mail Quota Warnings
If your mail disk usage exceeds 80% of your mail quota, then the mail server will begin sending quota warnings to your mail client. Some mail clients will display these warnings. Until your mail disk usage goes back under 80%, every mail operation that you perform will generate another quota warning. For example, if you use Thunderbird and you compact your folders, each folder is a separate compacting operation, so, you will have a quota warning for each folder. Additionally, each night that you are over 80% of your mail quota, an automatically generated mail message will appear in your mailbox, warning you to decrease your mail disk usage.
How to Check Your Mail Quota
Alpine
There is no facility inside Alpine to check quota. Instead, login to the Mathematical Sciences Mail Utilities and select "Check quota".Apple Mail
NOTE: Using Apple Mail to check your quota can take a long time, especially over a slow network connection, such as a dial-up connection. If you are using Apple Mail on a slow connection, you may want use the Mathematical Sciences Mail Utilities instead. To use the Mathematical Sciences Mail Utilities, login http://mail.divms.uiowa.edu/ and select "Check quota".
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Click on the scroll icon in the top menu.
Click on "Get Size of IMAP Mailboxes".
In the "Choose an account" window, click on your Mathematical Sciences
account and then click on the "OK" button.
Another window will pop up, informing that the account first must be
synchronized with the server. Click on the "OK" button.
Yet another window will pop up, warning you that the operation will take
some time, and giving you the option to cancel. If you want to proceed, click
on the "OK" button.
After some time, a "Quota report" message will pop up, listing your
mailboxes and their sizes. You can mail the report--it's actually a message.
Eudora
There is no facility inside Eudora to check quota. Instead, login to the Mathematical Sciences Mail Utilities and select "Check quota".Evolution
There is no facility inside Evolution to check quota. Instead, login to the Mathematical Sciences Mail Utilities and select "Check quota".Mathematical Sciences Mail Utilities
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Login to the
Mathematical Sciences Mail Utilities.
Select "Check quota".
Click the "Submit" button.
Mozilla
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Right-click on your Inbox.
In the menu, select "Properties..."
In the window that pops up, click on the "Quota" tab.
Your mail disk usage and quota will be displayed.
Click the "OK" button.
Outlook
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WARNING: To accurately calculate your mail disk usage, you must first
be sure that Outlook's folder information is current. The only way to do this
is to click on each folder in the Navigation Pane.
Right-click on the root of your folder tree.
In the menu, click on Properties.
Click on the Folder Size button.
Your total disk usage will be displayed above the Subfolder window. Each
subfolder's size will be displayed in the scrollable Subfolder window.
Click the "Close" button.
Click the OK button.
Outlook Express
There is no facility inside Outlook Express to check quota. Instead, login to the Mathematical Sciences Mail Utilities and select "Check quota".pine
There is no facility inside pine to check quota. Instead, login to the Mathematical Sciences Mail Utilities and select "Check quota".Thunderbird
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Right-click on your Inbox.
In the menu, select "Properties..."
In the window that pops up, click on the "Quota" tab.
Your mail disk usage and quota will be displayed.
Click the "OK" button.
Webmail
Quota info for mail account is shown on the INBOX window. You can also login to the Mathematical Sciences Mail Utilities and select "Check quota".Webmail also allows you to sort any mail folder by message size. This can be very handy to help you find messages with large attachements and strip them using webmail or Thunderbird.
