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by electriclove 655 days ago
Good. This shouldn't be a limitless service. There are costs involved and it is nice they offer alumni email accounts at all.
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layer8 655 days ago
The correct thing to do is to send a 552 5.2.2 Mailbox full [0][1], not to delete the account. Email account quota is a standard feature of mail servers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMTP_server_return_cod...

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3463.html#section-3.3

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shepherdjerred 655 days ago
What costs, aside from those imposed by service providers like MS/Google? Storage is not that expensive for a normal user.
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