title: Email Disk Usage created at: Sun Oct 20 2024 10:40:58 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) updated at: Sat Feb 08 2025 14:22:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) --- # Email Disk Usage # Overview This interface allows you to view all of your mailboxes and remove old or large messages. # Account Select the account to modify from the *Account* menu. !! Note !! The *Account* menu **only** appears for cPanel accounts. It will **not** appear in [Webmail](https://docs.cpanel.net/webmail/the-webmail-interface/) accounts. # Search Use the *Search* text box to search for specific mailbox names. # The mailboxes table The mailbox table contains a list of mailboxes. You can sort this information by the name, number of messages, or disk usage. | Item | Description | | --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | *Mailbox Name* | The name of the mailbox. | | *# of Messages* | The number of messages for the address or in the mailbox folder. | | *Disk Usage* | The disk usage for each address or mailbox in bytes, kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), or gigabytes (GB).<br />!! Note<br />!! Due to system caching, these values may not reflect recent changes in your account’s disk space. | | *Actions* | The actions available for the mailbox. | # Remove messages To remove messages, perform the following steps: 1. Click *Manage*. 2. Select one of the following removal options from the menu: * *1 year old or more* * *30MB in size or more* * *Previously viewed* * *All messages* * *Custom query…* — This option allows you to customize your removal option with the Dovecot mailbox command format. For example, to remove all messages larger than 10MB, select this option and enter `LARGER 10M` in the text box. For more information about how to use the Dovecot mailbox commands, read Dovecot’s [Overview of search queries for doveadm mailbox commands](https://doc.dovecot.org/main/core/man/doveadm-search-query.7.html) documentation. 3. Click *Delete Permanently*.