Problem: Exceeding My Storage Limit with Outlook

I am using Outlook and find that I often exceed my storage limits for my mail account.

Scenario

  I am currently using Outlook
  I may be using a dial up connection
  I have on more than one occasion been inconvenienced by a full mailbox

Recommended Solution

Change Outlook delivery options

If you are finding that your mailbox is filling up, even when using Outlook, it is most likely that you are storing your mails on the server. While this gives you the flexibility to check emails using webmail, it has the disadvantage of your mailbox growing in size over time. You can rectify this problem by changing the delivery settings in Outlook. How to configure Outlook delivery options.

Configure Outlook for large messages

If you are using a dial up connection and you frequently receive messages with large files attached you may want to provide Outlook with specific instructions on how to handle these mails. If you fail to do this you may find that you spend a long time connected to the Internet downloading these files. How to configure Outlook for large mails.

Use webmail to delete large messages

If you are using a dial up connection and have configured Outlook to not download large emails, as described above, you will need to periodically check your mailbox using webmail. This will allow you to see any files that exceed the size limit that you have specified for downloading. These can then either be read or deleted as appropriate, direct from webmail.

Benefits

The benefits of using these settings are:
  Eliminates inconvenience caused by mailbox size limits

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