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# Why does my mailbox get full?

There are a few reasons your mailbox can reach huge sizes, here are a few and recommendations how to avoid them.

### Large Attachments

Sending files and photos via email attachments is very convenient, but e-mail is not suitable for sharing large files. There is no faster way to fill your e-mail account than to have your colleagues send you massive file attachments, or to save your files in your e-mail account!

For files larger than 3MB, we recommend using a file sharing service. There are many good ones that are freely available, such as Dropbox or Google Drive.

### Email Forwarding

It is possible to have an email account configured to forward all messages to a different email account on a different domain. However, using this arrangement you will receive two times the amount of e-mails - those destined for this account, and those forwarded to it from the other mailbox.

The best we can recommend is to regularly delete e-mails you consider you no longer need and empty spam/junk and trash folders regularly.

Alternatively you can also use a mail client such as Outlook or Thunderbird to export e-mails to your local device and store them in case you need them at a later time. (*You can do that with receipts of online payment, order confirmations, etc*)