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All IMAP Email Users - Please Empty Your Trash

In an effort to streamline the mail spool on the IMAP4 server, the Computing Infrastructure Technology Group (the folks who bring you Lab email) is asking that all users empty their Trash folders regularly. Trash folders contain all email messages which have been deleted. In fact, 26 percent of the current disk space used for IMAP mailboxes is in users' Trash folders! To empty your trash from Netscape Messenger, click on "File" -> "Empty Trash on imap4.lbl.gov."

Each user is allocated 100 megabytes (MB) of free disk space on the IMAP server. Beginning in August, users who exceed this amount of space will be charged $2/MB/month for disk space over 100 MB. Sample bills will be sent out for the months of June and July. To see how much space you are using, go to http://www.lbl.gov/mail, log in with your mail username and password, and click on the "Folders" tab at the top of the page. This brings up a screen listing the disk space used by each folder, with total usage at the bottom. Also, you can empty your trash directly from this screen.

Please note that it may take up to 24 hours after you empty your Trash folder before the disk space reduction is reflected in the total on the Web page.

If you have questions, please contact the Help Desk at 486-HELP.