Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Outlook® 2007

Clean Up Your Mailbox

If you find that your mailbox is so full that it is impossible to navigate, you can clean it using Outlook’s Mailbox Cleanup feature.

It enables you to find items to delete or move, archive old items, and empty the Deleted Items folder.

Clean Up Your Mailbox

1.	Click Tools.
2.	Click Mailbox Cleanup. [View full size image] The Mailbox Cleanup dialog box appears.
3.	To see how much space your mailbox is currently consuming on your hard drive, click View Mailbox Size. The Folder Size dialog box appears, indicating the amount of space occupied by your mailbox.
4.	Click Close. [View full size image]
5.	To see how much space is currently occupied by items in the Deleted Items folder, click View Deleted Items Size. The Folder Size dialog box appears, this time indicating the amount of space occupied by the Deleted Items folder.
6.	Click Close to close the Folder Size dialog ...