If you're a user of IMAP4 email, you can streamline your own Inbox and the overall service by emptying your trash folder and filing as many storge messages as possible on your own computer. Currently, the central IMAP servers contain about 25 gigabytes of data stored in trash folders (yes, even though you trashed it, it's still being stored) - that's about 20 percent of the total storage. Reducing the amount of mail you have stored on the central server can also save you monthly charges, which are assessed when an account exceeds 100 megabytes of storage. Realistically only mail that needs to be accessed from several computers needs to be stored on the IMAP servers. If you use only one computer, you can easily store most of your mail on your hard drive.

The Computing Infrastructure Technology Group asks that you please continue to keep the size of your mail store as compact as possible. Please regularly review which messages need to be saved on the IMAP4 server and which can be deleted -- and empty your trash frequently.

Click here to check the amount of email you have stored on the IMAP4 server.