Overview
This article provides information about how to delete emails and manage your mailbox size. Keeping your inbox size as small as possible helps improve your interaction with the webmail interface and prevents you from hitting your email quota limit.
Backing up email
If you have a large amount of email in your Inbox or any other folder, it's highly recommended that you first back it up using the steps described in this article.
Once backed up, you can safely delete any email you no longer need.
Deleting email
After logging in using webmail or any third-party client, you can simply highlight the emails you wish to delete and then click the Delete button.
You can also use these keyboard commands to select all emails:
- Windows — Ctrl + A
- Mac — Cmd + A
The Trash folder
Any email you delete is sent to a Trash folder. You can then open this folder and permanently delete them as needed.
Spam and Trash purges
DreamHost purges all spam and trash email messages older than 15 days. Please make sure you check your spam and trash messages within this time frame if you wish to save any email.
Other folders
If your inbox is still full, check all of your folders and any email attachments that may be taking up space.