E-Mail Space

• Student E-Mail Space Limits
• Faculty and Staff E-Mail Space Limits
• Keep Your E-Mail Space from Filling Up
• Check Your E-Mail Space Usage

Student E-Mail Space Limits

Students have 25 MB (or 25,600 KB) of storage space for messages.

If your amount of used spaces reaches 10 MB (or 10,240 KB), then an automated message will be sent to you from the System Administrator to let you know that your e-mail account is getting full.

If your amount of used space reaches 12 MB (or 12,288 KB), then you'll able to receive messages, but you won't be able to send any messages.

If your amount of used space reaches 25 MB (or 25,600 KB), then you won't be able to receive or send any messages.

Faculty and Staff E-Mail Space Limits

Faculty and staff members have 75 MB (or 76,800 KB) of storage space for messages.

If your amount of used space reaches 45 MB (or 46,080 KB), then you will receive an automated message to let you know you that your e-mail account is getting full.

If your amount of used space reaches 60 MB (or 61,440 KB), then you'll be able to receive messages, but you won’t be able to send any messages.

If your amount of used space reaches 75 MB (or 76,800 KB), then you won't be able to receive or send any messages.

Keep Your E-Mail Space from Filling Up

To keep your e-mail space from filling up, you should periodically clean out your Inbox, Sent Items, Junk E-Mail, and Deleted Items folders and move messages that you want to keep to a personal folder. (For more information, see Personal Folders.)

Check Your E-Mail Space Usage

To check the size of your Outlook folders:

1. Click on the Go menu and select Folder List.
2. Click on Folder Sizes.

Note: Folder sizes are shown in kilobytes (KB). To convert kilobytes to megabytes (MB), multiple the number of kilobytes by 1,024. (1MB = 1,024 KB).