Has your email just stopped working? Often, an easy point to miss is storage space of email accounts. If you hit your max storage space for an email account, all email traffic stops. In this article, you’ll learn how to fix this issue by doing the following:
- Viewing your storage space for email accounts in cPanel
- Changing storage space for email accounts in cPanel
Managing email space is an important requirement for setting up email accounts and troubleshooting issues in your hosting account. Learn how to see what space is being used and what has been allocated to various email accounts that you manage.
How to View Your Email Storage Space
- Log into cPanel.
- Select Email Accounts under Email.
- Scroll down to view the table of email accounts.
Note that email storage will be listed under “Storage: Used / Allocated / %.”
How To Change Your Email Storage Space
- Log into cPanel.
- Select Email Accounts under Email.
- Scroll down to view the table of email accounts.
- Click Manage for the email account you want to manage.
- Adjust Allocated Storage Space.
Here you can select exactly the desired storage space or change it to unlimited if it is available on your plan.
Well done! You now know how to adjust storage space for email accounts. Be sure to leave a comment or question if you have any trouble with these steps.
Most Shared Hosting plans allow you to create unlimited email accounts, but some plans do have restrictions. For more email management tips, check out our guide on how to permanently delete all email from your webmail.
Do different amounts of storage space cost a certain amount of money. Will my costs change if I increase storage space for an email account?
Hi Tracey, for Shared Hosting plans liked Shared Hosting and WordPress Hosting, the storage capacity is tied to different hosting plans and priced accordingly. For Dedicated Hosting and VPS Hosting plans, you have control across your cPanels, but you’re also going to have more systems administrations tasks to keep track of. I hope that helps!