outlooks keeps saying inbox full

[Guest]

Keeps coming up that my inbox is full, and bounces my incoming messages.
Don't have a lot in my inbox.

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Nor a lot in your message.

What version of Outlook? What kind of server (company Exchange server?
ISP's POP Server?). Do you have Outlook set to leave a copy of messages on
the server? It may not be a matter of the number of messages, but rather
the size of them -- could be you only have 10 messages in the Inbox but one
of them is a bootleg MPEG of the latest Harry Potter flick and that's
filling up your Inbox.


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[Vanguard]

Keeps coming up that my inbox is full, and bounces my incoming messages.
Don't have a lot in my inbox.

Check with your Exchange admin as to how much disk space you get for your
mailbox. At work, I only get 100MB, and with some users attaching large
files, I end up having to strip off the attachments that I've already saved
or no longer need if I want to keep the messages.

For POP3, you'll have to ask your e-mail provider as to what is your quota
(maximum disk space) for your account. Just a single message that is 10MB
big would consume your quota of 10MB for your account.

For webmail, again you'll have to find out what is your disk quota for your
account there and see how much of it is being consumed by the mails that are
you leaving there.

Next time be less vague as to what type of mail server to which you connect
and who is your mail provider. "Don't have a lot" tells us nothing about
how much of your quota that you have consumed. Count is irrelevant. Size
is relevant.

 

[Judy Gleeson MVP Outlook]

I would bet that the message says your Mailbox is full (not Inbox) Right
click your Outlook Today | Properties and look at the folder size of
everything in your mailbox. Maybe the last 3 years of appointments in your
Calendar are filling your mailbox, or sent items, or Tasks etc etc etc -
they are all in your Mailbox (on an Exchange Server environment).

Do some filing or deleting.

Judy Gleeson [MVP Outlook]
Acorn Training and Consulting
www.acorntraining.com.au

Everyone - turn on your Advanced Toolbars and learn how to use the Field
Chooser and Group by Box!!

 

[Vanguard]

I would bet that the message says your Mailbox is full (not Inbox) Right
click your Outlook Today | Properties and look at the folder size of
everything in your mailbox. Maybe the last 3 years of appointments in your
Calendar are filling your mailbox, or sent items, or Tasks etc etc etc -
they are all in your Mailbox (on an Exchange Server environment).

Do some filing or deleting.

Judy Gleeson [MVP Outlook]
Acorn Training and Consulting
www.acorntraining.com.au

Everyone - turn on your Advanced Toolbars and learn how to use the Field
Chooser and Group by Box!!

Check with your Exchange admin as to how much disk space you get for your
mailbox. At work, I only get 100MB, and with some users attaching large
files, I end up having to strip off the attachments that I've already
saved or no longer need if I want to keep the messages.

For POP3, you'll have to ask your e-mail provider as to what is your
quota (maximum disk space) for your account. Just a single message that
is 10MB big would consume your quota of 10MB for your account.

For webmail, again you'll have to find out what is your disk quota for
your account there and see how much of it is being consumed by the mails
that are you leaving there.

Next time be less vague as to what type of mail server to which you
connect and who is your mail provider. "Don't have a lot" tells us
nothing about how much of your quota that you have consumed. Count is
irrelevant. Size is relevant.

That's why I mentioned visiting the webmail interface to their account
(because there is no mention of using Exchange but that doesn't preclude it
is involved). The webmail interface often indicates how much of the user's
quota has been consumed. There may be no mails sitting in the Inbox (which
is the mailbox that a POP3 client can reach) but the user has moved files
into other server-side folders that are only defined under the webmail
service and unreachable to the POP3 e-mail client. So the Inbox might be
empty but the quota consumed with items saved in other folders in the
webmail's store.