Administrators set a quota for your mailbox. You can view the quota information only if the Administrator sets a quota limit for you. The quota is set for a user is based on the disk space or number of mail that the Inbox can store. An Administrator can also set quota for each mail folder in your Inbox. The mail quota for your Inbox depends on two criteria.
The disk space used.
The number of email that you can store.
The quota is exhausted if any one of the two criteria is satisfied, which ever occurs first. For example, if the Administrator has set a limit of 2000 mail and a storage of 2048 mega bytes; and if you have exhausted the 2000 mail limit but still have about 20 MB of disk space, your quota is exhausted.
If your Administrator has set a quota for you, a summary of the quota used is available under the Messages toolbar in the form of a bar chart. The threshold limit is indicated by a red color bar chart.
Note - The color schemes are customizable. By default, the threshold limit is indicated by a red color bar chart.
The threshold limit is set by the Administrator.
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