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| I still receive [mailbox-guard] emails telling me my inbox is over quota. But my inbox is empty. What can i do? | Whenever i try to delete an email, the line only gets crossed out. |
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| Using IMAP, mails you delete are only "marked as deleted" and hence still use disk-space. Some Email clients just hide these marked emails, others show them in light gray or crossed out and others move them only to the Trash. In any case you still need some more steps to finaly purge these emails. See below to see which steps are necessary for your email client: | Using IMAP, mails you delete are only "marked as deleted" and hence still use disk-space. Some Email clients just hide these marked emails, others show them in light gray or crossed out and others move them only to the Trash. In any case you still need some more steps to finally purge these emails. See below to see which steps are necessary for your email client: |
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| AppleMail:: After having moved your mails from the inbox to the other folder, use "Mailbox->Erase Deleted Items" from the menu or press Command-Shift-Backspace. Thunderbird:: Select the mailbox and choose "Compact Mailboxes" from the File menu Outlook & Entourage:: Select the mailbox and choose "Purge deleted messages" from the Edit menu Eudora:: in the Special menu select "Compact Mailboxes" or set your account-properties to automatically purge old mail |
AppleMail:: After having moved your mails from the inbox to the other folder, use '''`Mailbox->Erase Deleted Item`''' from the menu or press Command-Shift-Backspace. Thunderbird:: Select the mailbox and choose '''`Compact Mailboxes`''' from the File menu Outlook & Entourage:: Select the mailbox and choose '''`Purge deleted messages`''' from the Edit menu |
Problem
Whenever i try to delete an email, the line only gets crossed out.
Solution
Using IMAP, mails you delete are only "marked as deleted" and hence still use disk-space. Some Email clients just hide these marked emails, others show them in light gray or crossed out and others move them only to the Trash. In any case you still need some more steps to finally purge these emails. See below to see which steps are necessary for your email client:
- Alpine
- Press "X"
- AppleMail
After having moved your mails from the inbox to the other folder, use Mailbox->Erase Deleted Item from the menu or press Command-Shift-Backspace.
- Thunderbird
Select the mailbox and choose Compact Mailboxes from the File menu
- Outlook & Entourage
Select the mailbox and choose Purge deleted messages from the Edit menu
- http://email.ee.ethz.ch
Select the emails which are in a light grey color and click the Move message to trash button
. After that switch to the Trash Folder, mark all messages you want to finally delete (you can press the control key to select multiple emails or press the alt key to select a range of emails) and press the very same button again. Notice that the description now states "Delete messages".