
Also, you can find items larger/older than a specified limit. Using the Mailbox Cleanup Option, you can view your mailbox size/mailbox folder sizes. Three options are available in the Cleanup Tools dropdown list: You can trim the size of your mailbox using the options in the Outlook Cleanup Tools (you can access it by following File>Info>Cleanup Tools). Continue doing this, until the mailbox has enough space for new emails. If you need, you can save the attachments to your drive before deleting it (by right-clicking on the attachment and then clicking ‘ Save As’ or ‘ Save All’ option). There, click on the newly created folder, and delete your mails which are not so important. When you face mailbox size issues, just go to the Search Folders. This newly created folder will get updated with the mails of size more than 6000 KB automatically.

Click OK again and a folder named ‘ Larger Than 6000 KB’ is created under Search Folders.Specify a size in the ‘ Show mail greater than’ box (for example 6000 KB).Click Choose under Customize Search Folder.

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Note: It is recommended to all users take a full backup of their Outlook PST files in advance before performing the manual solutions to reduce the Outlook file size as some may result in data loss due to manual errors.

That is why Microsoft has provided some inbuilt features in Outlook to deal with the ‘ Full Mailbox’ situation. But this alone is not enough to cope with the situation. Deleting some emails and attachments would be the easiest way to do this. In order to send and receive emails without issues, it’s necessary to reduce the size of Outlook mailbox. What you can do to reduce the size of Outlook mailbox?

Mailbox Full: Your mailbox is full, you may not be able to send or receive items.Īs an Outlook user, you may be familiar with this message.
