What are Account Quotas for Webmail?
As with most e-mail systems, Webmail and the iun.edu accounts have a storage quota or a limit on the amount of space you are allowed on the server. The base storage limit for these accounts is approximately six megabytes for shakespeare accounts. This is quite a bit of room if most messages are plain text (which the vast majority of e-mail messages sent throughout the IU system should be). If you are storing e-mail messages that have large attachments, then your storage space can be eaten up rather quickly. The Webmail server space is not meant to house large file attachments — save large attachments (defined as attachments greater than 50 kilobytes) to your computer’s hard drive or to removable storage media (such as a Zip disk) and delete the message from your account. (Obviously, if you need to save the text of the message, simply copy and paste it into a word processing application and save it in conjunction with the attachment.) When using WebMail through a web browser (Microsoft
