Email Full or Email Bouncing

Email Full or Email Bouncing

This article explains using Web Mail to clean out your EarthLink email storage space.

Cleaning out storage space may help if people are unable to send you email, or you received an error message about reaching your email storage limit.

To clean out your email storage space using Web Mail

1


Sign in to Web Mail using your email address and password.
Note: Your password is Case Sensitive.



2

In the upper-left corner of the page, view the amount of storage space you have.


Note: Each mailbox contains 100MB of storage space.




3

While looking down the Size column, find emails with a large size, then place a check in the boxes for those emails and click the Delete button at the top of the page.

4

Click the Trash folder on the left.



5

Click the Empty this folder link on the top right.




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