How to clean up a full/closed student (email) mailbox
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Please note:
Student email accounts have a limit to the size of the mailbox. When it
reaches the limit, the system will start sending messages to warn
you that it is full or nearing full capacity. Once it has exceeded capacity then it will send messages stating your account is closed. Once your account is full you will not be able to send or receive messages until the mailbox is under the size limit. Once you have cleaned up your mailbox then you will be able to send and receive messages again.
Instructions for Internet Explorer
• Delete items from your
mailbox folders by clicking on
Inbox folder and then selecting items on the page to delete.
• To remove several messages at once, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and then select the first and last messages you want to delete. Then either right- click on the messages (as shown in the graphic below) and select Delete or click the
Delete button on the toolbar.

• Once you have deleted the items, they are not completely deleted from your
mailbox. The items are then moved to
Deleted Items
folder. Right-click on
Deleted Items and click
Empty Deleted Items to permanently remove the
messages from your mailbox.
Instructions for Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox
•
Delete items from your
mailbox folders by clicking on
Inbox folder and then
selecting items on the page to delete.
•
To remove several messages at once, click the
checkbox for each message to
select it for deletion and then
click the
Delete button on the toolbar.
• Once you have deleted the items, they are not completely deleted from your
mailbox. The items are then moved to the
Deleted Items folder. Click on
Empty Recycle Bin button on the toolbar to permanently
remove the
messages from your mailbox.