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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025

Email full even though I deleted a third of the emails

I keep getting the warning that my mailbox is 98% full.  I deleted two entire years worth of emails and that number has not gone down any.  I have logged out and back in, deleted the trash, and restarted my computer. Any suggestions?  Thank you

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4 days ago

Hello, and thank you for joining us here for help with your Comcast email, user_9660lv! Clearing us space in your Xfinity email is easy to do. Just head over to xfinity.com, log in to your account, and look through your Inbox and Spam folders for large attachments or older emails you no longer need. Once you've deleted them, don’t forget to click the hamburger menu next to the Trash folder and select "Empty Trash" to permanently remove those emails and free up space.

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4 days ago

@user_9660lv 

I keep getting the warning that my mailbox is 98% full.  I deleted two entire years worth of emails and that number has not gone down any.  I have logged out and back in, deleted the trash, and restarted my computer. Any suggestions?  Thank you

You need to delete your cookies and cache.  Then sign out of your account.  Close your browser and then start a new session.

Let us know if this works.

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3 days ago

Thank you for the responses! I deleted 2GB more worth of emails (or that's what it was supposed to be according to the size listed). There was no option to empty trash.  I cleared cookies and cache, signed out, and opened new browser.  It went down to 94%, which is an improvement, but not what I hoped.  That will keep me going for a little while longer anyway.

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Perfect! Thank you so much for the update and for allowing our team to help. If you would like we are happy to look into this, what browser are you using? 

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I use Microsoft Edge

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Have you attempted up a filter for emails by size? This will allow you to locate all of the bigger emails and download them to your personal device before deleting them and freeing up space. 

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