What are the inbox and disk quotas on my mail.sas account?
Inbox quota
Email that is sent to your mail.sas account is received by a server called mail.sas.upenn.edu.
This server stores your email in a location shared by all mail.sas users.
This space, referred to as inbox from here on, is not the
same as the IN mailbox in POP email
clients such as Eudora or Netscape. Therefore, changes made to those mailboxes
may not affect your inbox quota.
When you use Eudora or Netscape as a POP e-mail client to read your
email, it connects to mail.sas and downloads the email that is currently
in your inbox. This should remove the email from your inbox on
mail.sas. However, you can set up Netscape and Eudora to leave a copy
of each message on mail.sas, which results in your inbox filling up rapidly.
If you think this is the case, you can learn how to turn this feature
off here.
When many inboxes are too full, problems can occur on mail.sas. Therefore,
the system allocates each user 25 megabytes for his/her inbox.
If the amount of space you are using in your inbox exceeds 18 megabytes,
you will receive a warning. Please see here for more information.
If your inbox becomes larger than 20 megabytes, you may not be
able to receive any new messages, and your oldest messages will be moved
to a Mail folder called mbox-MMM-DD-YY in your Mail directory.
Please see here for information on finding this folder.
See here for information on checking
your inbox size and quota.
Disk quota
Totally separate from the amount of space you are allocated for your
inbox in the shared spaced on mail.sas, you are also allocated a certain
amount of space all your own called your home directory. The amount of
space is called disk quota. We use disk quotas on this system to make
sure that everyone will get their share of disk space.
When you exceed your disk quota, you will be given a grace period of 7 days
to go back under. If you exceed this grace period, or you exceed your hard
limit, you risk losing your files. Any attempt to save messages will result
in the data being destroyed by the system. You should raise your disk quota
until it exceeds the amount of space you are using. Then, you should delete
or download some messages and/or Mail folders.
See here for information on checking
your disk size and quota.
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Last modified: Thursday, 12-Jan-2006 14:25:38 EST
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