{"id":3125,"date":"2021-10-18T12:18:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T12:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2021-10-18T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T12:18:14","slug":"how-to-manage-email-disk-usage-in-cpanel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/how-to-manage-email-disk-usage-in-cpanel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Manage Email Disk Usage in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>how to view and manage e-mail disk space usage in cPanel is explains knowledge base section . This section is very useful for you to view all of your mailboxes and delete old or large messages.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Managing e-mail disk usage<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Follow the steps below, to manage email disk usage:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong>\u00a0Log in to your cPanel account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong>\u00a0Scroll to the<strong>\u00a0EMAIL<\/strong>\u00a0section and click on the\u00a0<strong>Email Disk Usage<\/strong>\u00a0icon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-229\" src=\"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/email1.png\" alt=\"email-1\" width=\"178\" height=\"54\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong>\u00a0On the\u00a0<strong>Email Disk Usage<\/strong>\u00a0page, select the email account you wish to view from the\u00a0<strong>Account\u00a0<\/strong>dropdown list or type it into the search bar to search for it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-230\" src=\"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/email-2-300x235.png\" alt=\"email-2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/email-2-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/email-2-768x601.png 768w, https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/email-2.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you have selected your account, its mail folders will be listed under\u00a0<strong>Mailbox Name<\/strong>, as in the image above. At the side of these, you will be able to see columns for the number of messages each folder contains and the size of each folder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong>\u00a0To free up disk space, go to the\u00a0<strong>Actions<\/strong>\u00a0column and click\u00a0<strong>Manage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong>\u00a0Under\u00a0<strong>Messages to delete<\/strong>, there are several filters you can select to choose the emails you wish to delete. These are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1 year old or more<\/strong>: Choose this option to delete messages over one year old.<\/li>\n<li><strong>30 MB in size or more<\/strong>: Choose this option to delete deletes messages larger than 30 MB.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Previously viewed<\/strong>: Choose this option to delete messages that have previously been read.<\/li>\n<li><strong>All messages<\/strong>: Choose this option to delete all messages in the folder.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Custom query<\/strong>: Choose this option to search for specific messages, e.g. by age, terms in the subject line, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Note:\u00a0<\/strong>Custom query uses Dovecot search tags. You can find a list of these at \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki2.dovecot.org\/Tools\/Doveadm\/SearchQuery\">Dovecot\u2019s SearchQuery page<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong>\u00a0To permanently delete the messages, click\u00a0<strong>Delete Permanently<\/strong>. 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