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Your Storage Limit in Central Email

Find out how much space your email messages and attachments can occupy.

Your UBmail (Central Mail) Quota

Your quota (storage) use is based on the size of the messages and attachments in all of your mail folders. Your quota depends on your affiliation with UB:

  • 1 GB for students
  • 3 GB for non-students

Check Your Quota

Visit Central Email Management to find out how many kilobytes of UBmail (Central Email) space you have used.

Incoming Email Message Size

You can receive an email message (including its attachments) that is 25MB or less. Email messages over 25MB are not accepted by UBmail (Central Mail).

Outgoing Email Message Size

  • Email clients
    Email messages you send from your email client can be up to 150MB each, including attachments.
  • Web version of UBmail (Central Mail)
    Email messages you send from UBmail (central Mail) must be 15MB or less, including attachments.

Avoid Exceeding Your Quota

Delete email and empty the trash often to prevent items in your inbox and trash folder from occupying storage space.

Save large attachments to another location and then delete the messages from your email. You can save attachments to your computer or your UBfs space.

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