Many users first learn of the myUSI mail quota after using 90% of it. Then they often wonder what happens when their email quota is reached.

The myUSI email quota is 50 Megabytes (50 MB) of space across all of your email folders.

Moving messages into a folder still counts against your overall quota. This includes moving mail into your Deleted and Sent folders.

Moving a message from the INBOX into a separate folder does save it from automatically being purged once it is in your account for longer than 6 months (180 days), but the message will still count towards your overall quota until it is fully deleted from any folder in your email.

Once you reach your quota, you won’t be able to receive email anymore and anyone sending you an email message will get bounce back error messages explaining that your mailbox is full.

If you are over quota, you can free up space by deleted messages that you no longer need from any of the folders in your email. If you need copies for future reference, you might consider forwarding them to another account or printing them off before removing them.

The myUSI email quota can be increased  to 100 Megabytes upon request to the myUSI Heldesk email address, myusi@usi.edu.