If you are using a higher storage HDD, then that may not affect you very
much. But, if you are using 128GB SSD like me then you must want to save
some space for other apps to use.
Mac mail app stores every email in its cache aggressively, which is not
bad in terms of easy accessing from spotlight search. But, that's again
not a very good thing because it can take gigs of storage space if left
default.
Check the Space Used by the Mac Mail App?
To access Mail app folder you need to hold Option key after tapping on
the finder > Go menu. Once you see the Mail folder, right click on that
and then tap on Get Info. Here you can see the size and space used by
the Mail app.
Clean up Storage Space of Mac Mail
Once you see the space utilized by the Mac mail app on your hard disk,
you can clean those out. There are a couple of solutions to clean up the
Mac mail storage space. You have to be very cautious when you delete the
email client files. It may break your system email client or lose your data.
Option 1: Move/Delete Large Messages
You can reduce the space taken by the Mac mail app by either moving the
email to other mailboxes. Alternatively, you can delete large messages
with attachments then once they are no more in use. To move email
messages you can perform the following steps:
* From your Mail app, select one or more messages.
* You can either Drag the messages to the mailbox or Click on the Move
To button from the toolbar.
Read more about this from Mac support guide
<https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mail/move-or-copy-emails-mlhlp1000/12.0/mac/10.14>.
If you have downloaded the attachments in your local drive then you can
delete attachments from Mail. For removing, Choose Message > Remove
Attachments. This way Message will remain in the mailbox and it will
indicate that attachments were removed manually.
Option 2: Empty the Trash Folder
Sometimes, we just delete messages from inbox, which are remains inside
the trash folder. That way Mail app will still occupy a large chunk of
the storage space. You can Choose Mailbox> Erase deleted items and then
select from all accounts or from a specific account.
Option 3: Use Web-based Email Service
If your internet connectivity to devices is good, then instead of using
Mail app, use web-based emails. For example- the popular Gmail web for
Gmail users. To stop using Mail app on your Mac, first, disable or
delete email accounts which are used by Mail app. Click on Mail menu and
select Mail accounts providers that you want to delete. Uncheck the
options from the given list on the right side. This will stop
downloading messages from there.
However, this doesn't stop here, as you need to delete the app cache
folder from ~/Library/Mail/V5. Here, Right click on IMAP or POP3 email
folder and tap Move to trash option. Then again, you need Right click on
Trash and select Empty Trash to delete everything permanently from it.
Note: the ~/Library/Mail/V5 version number <Vx> can be any number.
Go and give a quick look on your Mac Mail app folder and if requires
then follow above steps. We hope that you will be able to reclaim a lot
of storage space and use it for other stuff.
Source: Mashtips <https://mashtips.com/free-up-mac-mail-storage-space/>
Cheers,
Marcio <https://tinyurl.com/TlkTM>
AKA /Starboy/
Sent from a galaxy far, far away.
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