And after you’ve seen which mailboxes desperately need archiving, check out this tip I wrote last year on doing just that. When you’re done perusing your first account, go ahead and look at all the rest of ’em by using that top drop-down menu. Anyhow, another cool piece of info available is at the top of that last screenshot-Mail attempts to figure out how much available space you have on the server for the selected account, which can be handy if you’re using a smaller email provider that severely limits the amount of storage you’ve got. That’s not a ton, I guess, but I still feel so untidy. I’ve arranged my list by size here (which you can tell because of the arrow within that column header), but I can also see that I’ve got more than 3,000 sent messages stored on the server. I’m pretty proud of my Inbox being at zero. You can click the headers at the top of the list to sort by name, size, or number of messages, too. The oh-so-familiar spinning gear will keep you company while you wait.Īfter the process is done, though, you’ll get a neat list of the mailboxes associated with that account and their sizes. I find it’s easier to just choose the correct one from this dialog box, so swap that drop-down to the account you’d like to get the sizes for, then select the “Quota Limits” tab (or “Messages on Server” if you’re using Exchange).ĭepending on how much email you’ve got in the chosen account, you may need to go get a cup of coffee. By default, the account that’ll be chosen will be from whatever server-side mailbox you had selected in the sidebar before clicking the gear icon. In the subsequent window, you’ll see a drop-down menu at the top. Choose “Get Account Info” from the menu that’ll appear. Open Mail, of course, and then click the gear icon in the lower-left corner. However, the Mail application does have a pretty handy way to see which mailboxes are using up the most space, which can be a lifesaver if you’re trying to decide where to focus your cleanup efforts! Of course, those emails take up space both on your computer if you’re using Mail (or any similar program, such as Outlook) and on the server that your messages are passing through. One of the downsides of email is that, if you’re not diligent about keeping your mailboxes tidy, you’re gonna end up with a ton of old stuff.
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