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Friday, November 29th, 2024 11:53 PM

email storage limit

I have had my email account for about 20 years and have been getting "approaching limit -99% full" emails from Comcast for about 6 months or so.  I have literally deleted thousands of emails.  I start by removing the largest emails and also old ones that I no longer need.  Nevertheless, my storage hasn't changed at all.  I am routinely deleting my "Trash" and "Spam" Folders so they are permanently deleted.  What else can I possibly do?  

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5 months ago

@user_4y2uzg
Good evening! How are you accessing your Comcast email address? If you are accessing it via Webmail, I recommend moving important emails into a folder so you can just mass delete what you don't need. Because of the size of the inbox, only so many of the emails are shown at once, even when you use the sort function.

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I am accessing it from the internet/webmail.  I delete junk daily, multiple  times a day.  I also have been deleting all of the larger files and older files since I keep getting quota full warnings.  No matter how many I delete, it doesn't change my storage amount.  It's still at 99% full. 

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Thanks for the steps you have tried to reduce the amount of space being used, user_4y2uzg. Do you have a lot of items in folders that could be using up the space? Have you also cleared your browsing data/cookies on your device to ensure things are fully removed and are not leaving a footprint still? 

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4 months ago

@user_4y2uzg 

Call Comcast security. Ask them to look at the account and see what the issue might be--------------

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4 months ago

I'm also suddenly having this problem.  I've had my account around the same length of time. Just curious if you found a resolution.  

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@GeekyMomma​ 

I'm also suddenly having this problem.  I've had my account around the same length of time. Just curious if you found a resolution.  

After you delete emails and empty your trash, clear your cache and cookies, sign out of email, close your browser, then restart a new session.  See if that will open up space.

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3 months ago

Please add me to the list of people who are experiencing this problem. I am now receiving this message from postmaster@comcast.net:

"Your mailbox size has reached 100% of your quota.

You will not be able to receive any new messages unless you delete some old ones."

It looks like I am receiving this message every time someone is trying to send me an email message. 

As you can imagine, this is a pretty serious problem for me. I am now unable to communicate via email. 

Please note, I am taking all the measures noted above to remove emails to get below the 10G quota.

Thank you.

Official Employee

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Thank you for reaching out to us @user_o2eoxv! I see @Again shared some helpful troubleshooting steps, after deleting emails and emptying your trash, have your tried:


Clearing your cache and cookies

Signing out of the email

Closing your browser
Then restarting a new session

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