Mail Delivery Failure 'Over Quota'
Alan Lichtenstein
returned with the usual mail delivery failure, but the reason was
over-quota. I never had that before. Exactly what and why did I get it?
I have done e-mailings to the entire membership previously with no problems.
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Thor Kottelin
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>I recently did an e-mailing to members of my club. Two messages were
>returned with the usual mail delivery failure, but the reason was
>over-quota. I never had that before. Exactly what and why did I get it?
Hi Alan,
Email users often have a limited quota (e.g. 100 MB or 1 GB) of disk space
at their disposal. If they reach that quota, they cannot receive new mail
until they have removed some old messages.
It may help to think of a physical mailbox that becomes so full that the
mail man is unable to cram any more letters into it.
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Alan Lichtenstein
> "Alan Lichtenstein" <a...@nospam.tld> wrote in message
> news:nnq.J9CdnaIvB7CYwa...@rcn.net...
>
>> I recently did an e-mailing to members of my club. Two messages were
>> returned with the usual mail delivery failure, but the reason was
>> over-quota. I never had that before. Exactly what and why did I get it?
>
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> Email users often have a limited quota (e.g. 100 MB or 1 GB) of disk
> space at their disposal. If they reach that quota, they cannot receive
> new mail until they have removed some old messages.
>
> It may help to think of a physical mailbox that becomes so full that the
> mail man is unable to cram any more letters into it.
>
Thanks. I had never received that message before, and since these are
club members with personal e-mail addresses, I couldn't believe that
they had not checked their e-mail in some time.
Or does the cable company simply limit their space on its servers?
Peter Bennett
wrote:
>Thor Kottelin wrote:
>
>> "Alan Lichtenstein" <a...@nospam.tld> wrote in message
>> news:nnq.J9CdnaIvB7CYwa...@rcn.net...
>>
>>> I recently did an e-mailing to members of my club. Two messages were
>>> returned with the usual mail delivery failure, but the reason was
>>> over-quota. I never had that before. Exactly what and why did I get it?
>>
>>
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> Email users often have a limited quota (e.g. 100 MB or 1 GB) of disk
>> space at their disposal. If they reach that quota, they cannot receive
>> new mail until they have removed some old messages.
>>
>> It may help to think of a physical mailbox that becomes so full that the
>> mail man is unable to cram any more letters into it.
>>
>Thanks. I had never received that message before, and since these are
>club members with personal e-mail addresses, I couldn't believe that
>they had not checked their e-mail in some time.
>
>Or does the cable company simply limit their space on its servers?
The mail server may limit the disk space available to each user - at
one time, my server limited me to 2 megabytes. Some idiot I didn't
know sent me, unannounced, a message with several very large photos of
himself, which filled my allocated space, and no doubt caused some
other messages that I may have wanted to bounce with the "over quota"
message.
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