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Email Disk Quotas

Summary: Email accounts on the faculty, staff and student servers now have one disk quota for both Inbox and Home Directory. Information on these quota limits, how to check your quota, and how to purchase more quota space can be found below.

Check Quota

You can check your quota to see how much of your quota you are using. If you are at or near the limits, you should delete old messages or move them to your local computer.

Current Quotas

(As of 07/17/2008)
Affiliation
Quota
Faculty
1 GB
Staff
500 MB
Graduate Students
500 MB
Undergraduate Students
250 MB

Buy More Home Directory Storage

Additional storage is available via a recharge purchase. The cost is $5 per month per 100 MB. Currently only faculty and staff with a recharge number may purchase additional disk space. Students who have departmental sponsorship and a recharge number may also use the form to request additional disk space.

Tips for Staying Under Quota

  1. Check your quota often.
    Use My Email Options to check your quota. (Login is required.)
  2. Sort your folders.
    When you get messages in your Inbox, sort them into other folders to clear room for new messages in your Inbox.
  3. Empty your "trash" folder.
    Email that has been deleted may still be stored in your "trash" folder. Check this folder periodically and empty the trash. Note, this will remove these messages permanently.
  4. Empty your "spam" folder.
    If you have setup a spam folder, check this folder for spam and delete the messages. If you use Webmail you may need to subscribe to the folder by clicking on "Folders" located at the top page links and then under Unsubscribe/Subscribe subscribe to the new spam folder. You can sign up for automatic "Spam Filtering" by using My Email Options.
  5. It isn't the quantity of messages you delete, but the quality.
    Messages with large attachments and pictures takes up the most room. Save attachments to your computer or a CD if you can and then delete the message.