{"id":1047,"date":"2018-05-24T18:04:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T18:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=1047"},"modified":"2021-01-15T01:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T01:43:24","slug":"how-to-use-email-disk-usage-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/how-to-use-email-disk-usage-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Email Disk Usage in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A very useful tool for managing your user\u2019s Email accounts, especially from a storage perspective, is the <em>Email Disk Usage <\/em>feature. This allows you to permanently delete information stored in any of the account mailbox folders (e.g. inbox, draft, sent, etc.).<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-to-use-email-disk-usage-in-cpanel\">How to Use Email Disk Usage in cPanel<\/h3>\n<p>Follow these steps:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Login to your cPanel. If you&#8217;re a ChemiCloud customer, there&#8217;s a lot of ways to do this, but the sure fire easiest way is to login to your <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.chemicloud.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Client Area<\/a>, then open your cPanel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061\" src=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1674\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lab.jpg 1674w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lab-300x89.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lab-1024x303.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lab-768x228.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lab-50x15.jpg 50w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lab-1536x455.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lab-60x18.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lab-100x30.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1674px) 100vw, 1674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Under the Email section, look for and open Email Disk Usage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4378\" src=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/emaildu-783x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/emaildu-783x374.jpg 783w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/emaildu-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/emaildu-768x367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/emaildu-50x24.jpg 50w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/emaildu-60x29.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/emaildu-100x48.jpg 100w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/emaildu.jpg 1335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Use the Account Switcher to select the email account you want to manage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4379\" src=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/account-783x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/account-783x372.jpg 783w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/account-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/account-768x365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/account-50x24.jpg 50w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/account-1536x730.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/account-60x28.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/account-100x47.jpg 100w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/account.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 4: As you can see, there is a list of folders in the Mailbox, alongg with a count of messages in each folder, and the totality of disk space each folder is occupying in your hosting. To the far right is the Manage menu.<\/p>\n<p>Using this menu, you can choose to delete email that is of a certain age from each folder.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4380\" src=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manage-783x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manage-783x412.jpg 783w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manage-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manage-768x404.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manage-50x26.jpg 50w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manage-1536x807.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manage-60x32.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manage-100x53.jpg 100w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manage.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can choose from email that is over 1 year old, email that is 30 MB in size or more, all previously viewed mail, all messages, or even a custom query if those options aren&#8217;t specific for you.<\/p>\n    \t\t<div class=\"hts-messages hts-messages--info   hts-messages--withicon \"   >\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\t<p>\r\n    \t\t\t\t\tYou can learn more about Custom Queries by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki2.dovecot.org\/Tools\/Doveadm\/SearchQuery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> link.    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\r\n    \t\t<\/div><!-- \/.ht-shortcodes-messages -->\r\n    \t\t\n<p>That&#8217;s it! Now you know how to manage email disk usage in cPanel!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very useful tool for managing your user\u2019s Email accounts, especially from a storage perspective, is the Email Disk Usage feature. This allows you to permanently delete information stored in any of the account mailbox folders (e.g. inbox, draft, sent, etc.). 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