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Maintaining your eMail Inbox

ALL inboxes have limits, also known as quotas. In many hosting accounts, this applies to anything here at APIN, the default size of an account is 10 megabytes. In today's world of MPGs and hi-res cameras, a 10MB inbox could fill with a single email. When your inbox fills, you will not be able to get any additional mail until you either delete something or increase your quota. If you decide to increase your limit, keep in mind that unless that's a huge limit, storing mail on the server ALWAYS leaves you open to a filled mailbox.

Login to your cPanel and click the Mail icon

Go to Manage Accounts

Check to see which accounts are possibly near the limit

In this case, it appear this account is nearly full

So you click Quota and give him/her more disk space

Bumping this to 60 megs will fix the problem... at least for today

When this message appears... an extra 30 megs is now available

That's it. You're done. You can logout and at least for another 30 megs, this account is good-to-go.

ONE MORE THING...

TIP Disk space is a resource that must be managed. It's just like your laptop. If you keep uploading JPGs, eventually the disk will fill and your system will crash. Same is true with an inbox, even a website. (If you allocate all your website diskspace to your inbox, you can fill your inbox and crash both your email and your website!) There are alternatives:

1. Download your mail and/or delete the read/obsolete messages

2. Upgrade your hosting package to have lots of space or use an alternate mail solution like gMail where disk space is big and free.

If you want to investigate using gMail, make sure you configure like this so that your domain name continues to appear to be the mail host.