How do I create folders so my mailbox is not overfull in Outlook?

[Guest]

My job moves me around a lot and I have always had the fortune of "dragging &
dropping" emails to my personal folders in which I create in the folders
list, typically on the left side of my screen. Here at my new job, I have
created folders, done the same thing as I always have, with regard to
dragging & dropping emails to folders in which I have created, but the
problem is the fact that now I continue to receive emails stating that my
"mailbox is overfull." Noone is able to send me emails because of this...so,
what can I do? So far the only fix is to continue deleting emails that I
have placed in to folders in the "folder list," that I really wanted to keep
for future reference...what can I do?

 

[Guest]

It sounds like your new job limits the amount of storage you have on the
server, which is where you are making the personal folders. What you have to
do is make pst files on your local computer and store email there. In
outlook, go File / New / Outlook data file, it will ask you what to call it
and where to put it, it will show up like a folder on the left side of the
screen and you can make folders in it, just like folders in your mailbox.
The down side of this is, if you are at another machine or using web mail,
they will not show up.

 

[Guest]

dlw,

Thank You!!! You were 110% correct and everything is great now...thanks to
your response!

V/R,

Steve