how do I empty my imap mailbox

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Aruba ariba

I keep getting a dialogue box saying: your imap mailbox is at 91% of quota.
What needs to be done?
 
Aruba said:
I keep getting a dialogue box saying: your imap mailbox is at 91% of quota.
What needs to be done?
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You have consume 91% of the disk space for the quota on your e-mail account.
Your e-mail provider only gave you so much disk space for your mailbox and
you are nearing its complete consumption after which the mailbox can no
longer accept any new e-mails (nowhere to put them). You need to delete
some items in the subscribed folders (the ones that are synchronized between
the e-mail client and the e-mail server for your mailbox). I suppose you
could create a local folder in Outlook that isn't syncrhonized to your
mailbox and move the old items to there. Or start using Outlook's auto-
archive function to move old stuff that you want to keep into an alternat
message store (an archive .pst file).

Got any items in Outlook with a red line through them? Those are *eligible*
for deletion but won't occur until you next synchronize Outlook with your
mailbox on the server. If you configured Outlook to not periodically poll
your mailbox, when was the last time you did a mail poll? If you use the
Purge function, it forces a sync to the mailbox (to remove the delete-marked
items in Outlook). If nothing is marked for deletion (on the next sync) and
you don't move old items into a non-subscribed folder or archive them into
another message store (.pst file), you'll have to start deleting some items
and do a sync so they also get deleted up on the server to free up some disk
space for your mailbox's quota set by your e-mail provider.
 
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