Some of you may have gotten an email from the evula.org Mailer Daemon saying that your mailbox is more than 90% full. Don't worry! It isn't a problem with just you. The entire evula.org mail server is at near-full capacity; there's one person in particular that needs to clear out the 70+ megs he has in his email.
To make sure you are keeping your mail off the server, though, here's what you can do:
If you use Mail, check to make sure it is set up to delete the messages off of the server when it gets it. In Mail, go to Preferences -> Accounts and select the evula.org account, then go to the Advanced tab, then make sure the "Remove copy from server after receiving a message" checkbox is checked.
For Outlook Express, go to the Tools menu to Accounts and select your account, then click on the Options tab and make sure that "Leave a copy of each message on the server" is unchecked.
Hopefully the problem will be solved soon. By the end of the year, I'll be instituting an actual limit on the mailboxes; when I set up all the accounts, a limit wasn't even possible, so all users were given an unlimited allotment when the feature became available. Just one more thing to do around the Empire...
Edit: Issue resolved, here is the related blog entry. Comments on this topic are now closed.
Posted by Eric at December 14, 2004 09:23 AMGreat news, thanks for the quick response!
Posted by: Classay at December 14, 2004 11:52 AMThunderbird keeps them off the server by default. Whee.
Posted by: Josh at December 14, 2004 02:41 PMI usually remove from the server after a week's time (then I can retrieve at both school and home), but when I got that message I just double-checked that I had everything and used the "Remove now" button. :)
Posted by: Cha0s at December 14, 2004 06:10 PMP.S. In Mail, I mean...
Who has 70 MB, by the way? That's a LOT of wasted space it seems to me...
Apparently the server has reached it's total capacity. Bummer.
I should have this fixed this evening; I was planning on working on the forums, but the email issue shouldn't take *too* long, so I should make progress on both fronts.
Posted by: EVula at December 20, 2004 03:14 PM