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In order to prevent the BlitzMail system from becoming overwhelmed
by the number of stored messages, Peter Kiewit Computing Services has
implemented the following graduated storage policies for messages.
- Users with more than 500 MB of stored BlitzMail messages will be
reminded when they log into their BlitzMail account that they should
reduce their stored BlitzMail messages.
- Users with more than 550 MB of stored BlitzMail messages will be
reminded every time they send a message that they should reduce their stored
BlitzMail messages.
- Users with more than 600 MB of stored BlitzMail messages will not
be able to send messages, although they will continue to receive them.
The size of stored BlitzMail messages includes enclosures and
attachments to stored messages, as well as messages in your trash if your
trash has not been emptied.
You can check how much storage you are using by clicking the green
File Cabinet icon in BlitzMail and looking at the
Total Size number at the bottom of the Folders window. Note
that the total is given in KBytes; divide that number by 1,000 to compute the
value in megabytes. For example, if the Total Size amount shown is 3644K, that
is approximately 3.644 MB.
To reduce the total size of your stored BlitzMail messages,
consider removing enclosures from stored messages (after saving the enclosure
to your local disk if it needs to be preserved), deleting stored messages, or
saving stored messages to your local disk, then deleting the stored messages.
In BlitzMail, clicking the column headings in your In Box (for
example, Sender, Subject,
Recipient, etc.) will sort the messages in your In Box by that
column heading. Sorting all your messages by Sender or Size may be a useful way
to quickly select blocks of messages to be deleted or from which to save and
then delete enclosures. One common place where people can regain space is by
emptying their trash or deleting enclosures from messages in their Sent Msgs
folders.
If you have questions about how to remove enclosures, delete stored
messages, or save stored messages to a file on your computer, contact the
Computing Help Desk at 646-2999 and select from the options provided, send
electronic mail to help@dartmouth.edu,
or contact your department's
computing support office. These offices can also help you with transferring
files using an FTP server and other backup/storage options rather than
BlitzMail enclosures.
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