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The Problem: Mailbox Full
All of a sudden, you can’t send or receive e-mail.
Why?
Your mailbox may be full.
Your computer doesn’t actually send and receive e-mails directly. Your mail client software, either Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Apple Mail etc. will send and receive mail via the Internet’s version of the local post office, your Internet service provider’s mail server. Your provider sets aside storage space on their servers to store mail while you are not connected to it (when your mail software isn’t running). Most providers have a limit of how much mail you can store on their servers, and the mail stored on their servers. If your provider offers webmail as a service, only the mail stored at the provider’s servers will be visible in your mailbox.
When this storage space at the servers is used up (full) you cannot send or receive any more e-mail until you delete something. It’s more or less the same as having a post office box at the post office, and the box being too full to cram any more letters into. Periodically, you have to go to the post office and empty it. Big parcels will fill the box faster than small letters. With e-mail, the big parcels are e-mails with attachments, or e-mails with pictures or video embedded in them. The bigger the mail messages are, the faster the mailbox fills up. Consider carefully what you send and receive.
Let me show you how to fix this…
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