Mailbox Size

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Checking Your McCombs Mailbox Size

Mailbox size limits: Students = 100 MB Faculty/staff = 200 MB

If your mailbox exceeds your size limit, you will be unable to send or receive email until you free up space. You can check your mailbox size to ensure you are under the limit.

Using Outlook

1. Go to the Tools menu and select Mailbox Cleanup.
2. Click the View Mailbox Size... button
3. You may see tabs for Local data and Server data. If so, go to the Server data tab.*
4. Look at the Total Size. This is the size of your mailbox in KB. Roughly 1,000 KB = 1 MB. You can see which folders are problem areas by scrolling through the subfolder list. Usually problem areas include Deleted Items, Inbox, and Sent Items.

• Local data is the size of your local .ost file, the file Outlook creates to store local information for when you don't have an Internet connection as well as any settings you've changed. Local data size is generally unimportant; only server data is affected by your mailbox limit.

Using Outlook Web Access

Note: You must be using the full version of OWA for this feature. OWA Light does not have this feature.

1. Move your mouse to hover over your mailbox name in the folder list.
2. A pop-up box will appear telling you your current mailbox size.

For help cleaning out your mailbox, see Mailbox Cleanup.