What can be done when a mailbox goes over its quota and email starts bouncing?
Once you have exceeded the email quota for your domain, all of the mailboxes associated with your domain will stop accepting any new email. Any additional email sent to any of your mailboxes will bounce back to the sender. To solve this problem you’ll need to free up some space by downloading your email, or at least deleting some of the old email that you are storing on the server. If you are using an email program to download from a POP email account, then just deselect the “leave mail on server” option, so that your email will be permanently downloaded to your computer. If you are using IMAP or webmail you’ll need to actually delete some of your mail from the server (your deleted items and sent email are a good place to start). When deleting email using IMP Webmail, make sure to select the “purge deleted” option in order to permanently remove your deleted email from the server.
Once you have exceeded the email quota for a mailbox, it will stop accepting any new email and any additional email sent to that email address will bounce back to the sender. To solve this problem you’ll need to free up some space by downloading or deleting email from the server. If you are using an email program to download from a POP email account, you can adjust it locally so that your email will be permanently downloaded to your computer. Refer to your program’s Help menu for information on adjusting this setting (sometimes called ‘Leave copy on server’ setting). If you are using IMAP or webmail you’ll need to actually delete some of your mail from the server (your trash and sent email are a good place to start). When deleting email using IMP Webmail, make sure to select the “purge deleted” option in order to permanently remove your deleted email from the server. If you are ever unsure of how much email storage space is assigned to your website or you want to find out how much of t
