"Our main account recieved a notice from our ISP that we are 'overquota'.

Now our three computers all use different clients all of which are set to not leave messages on the server.

I want to know what is the cause of this error and how to prevent it."


I sent the above text to our ISP's email support (using an email based elsewhere on the net), and the reply to "I want to know what is the cause of this error and how to prevent it" was the word "overquota".

No **** sherlock, but that's not helpfull in the least. There's nothing about this in the online self-help either.

Does anybody here have a clue what the problem could be? The ISP account has 10 MB of server space, and nobody here gets that much email per day. Is someone's client leaving the messages on the server even though it's configured not to?

Clients are:

Outlook Express 6 (Windows 98)
Thunderbird (Windows XP)
Mozilla Mail Client (Linux)




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Found a feature that tells how much space your email account has consumed.

I know my mother's pw, and the total space used for both her email and my email is 75 KB.

I don't know my dad's email so I can't check that. (He doesn't know it either, so we're even.)

It may just mean you got one big (spam?) mail. If you can't connect via normal mail program, connect manually. What you need is a) telnet b)manual with POP3 commands (like this one: http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/1725/8.htm). Now, using the commands you can list mail on the server and delete one or more. Usually, when you delete the biggest one you'll be able to dowload all others using normal mail program. Oh...passwords usually go unencrypted.

My dad's email and Spam Mails are like Linux and Penguins. When you're working with one, you've got millions of the other.


I can get my mail just fine, so it's probably just a giant clog from his address.