A 1 MB file is equivalent to a 500-page book. 100 MB is about 2.4 metres (2.8 yards) of text.
Attachments, rather than the number of emails, are the main cause of exceeding your mailbox limit. Your mailbox size comprises the sum of all the emails in your ‘Received’, ‘Sent’ and ‘Deleted’ folders. The quickest way to downsize your mailbox is therefore clearly to remove and delete all large attachments. However, it’s quite common to forget to empty the ‘Deleted’ folder. Until you empty the ‘Deleted’ folder, all those large email attachments remain in your mailbox.
After deleting attachments, the other significant email time thief is subsequently ...
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