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Email Disk Quotas

Summary: Email accounts on the faculty, staff and student servers have disk quotas for both the email Inbox and the Home Directory. Information on these quota limits, how to check your quota, and how to purchase more quota space can be found below.

Check Your Quota
Current Quotas
Buy More Home Directory Storage
Tips To Stay Under Quota

Check Quota

You can check your quota to see how much of your Inbox and Home Directory space you are using. If you are at or near the limits, you should delete old messages or move them to your local computer.

Check your Quota (Login is required.)
Clear your Inbox with Pine: Use these directions to delete mail when you are over the quota limit.

Current Quotas

(As of 06/12/2007)

	Email InBox Quota	Home Directory (e.g., folders) Quota
Faculty	100 MB	500 MB
Staff	100 MB	250 MB
Graduate Students	50 MB	250 MB
Undergraduate Students	10 MB	60 MB

Buy More Home Directory Storage

Additional Home Directory storage is available via a recharge purchase. The cost is $5 per month per 100 MB. Currently only faculty and staff with a recharge number may purchase additional disk space. Students who have departmental sponsorship and a recharge number may also use the form to request additional disk space.

Buy More Home Directory Storage

Inbox vs. Home Directory

Inbox is the single default folder that your incoming email is sent to. This is limited in size to maintain system reliability and performance. When you reach 80% of your quota, you will receive an email warning.
Home Directory is additional storage in your account where you can save messages. This will usually be every other folder or mailbox that is NOT your Inbox. This may include your "sent folder", "drafts folder", "save folder", "spam folder", and your "trash folder". If you use IMAP, you can create other folders or mailboxes to store your email. When you reach 80% of your quota, you will receive an email warning.

Tips for Staying Under Quota

Check your quota often.
Use My Email Options to check your quota. (Login is required.)
Sort your folders.
When you get messages in your Inbox, sort them into other folders to clear room for new messages in your Inbox.
Empty your "trash" folder.
Email that has been deleted may still be stored in your "trash" folder. Check this folder periodically and empty the trash. Note, this will remove these messages permanently.
Empty your "spam" folder.
If you have setup a spam folder, check this folder for spam and delete the messages. If you use Webmail you may need to subscribe to the folder by clicking on "Folders" located at the top page links and then under Unsubscribe/Subscribe subscribe to the new spam folder. You can sign up for automatic "Spam Filtering" by using My Email Options.
It isn't the quantity of messages you delete, but the quality.
Messages with large attachments and pictures takes up the most room. Save attachments to your computer or a CD if you can and then delete the message.