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)
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# 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*.