Thread: HTC/Android email reports "not enough free space"

Whenever I view one of my email accounts I get an Alert pop-up saying:

"There is not enough free space.
Please delete some messages and try again."

However, I have 6.68GB free on the SD card and 33.21Mb free on the phone. Nevertheless I've deleted many messages, especially those with attachments, turn the phone off and on again, but I still get the alert. It doesn't seem to affect my ability to download new messages, but it's annoying. It only happens on one (POP3) account.

Any ideas? Do I have to delete and recreate the account?

I'm having exactly the same problem for the last 3 days, I've already deleted 2 email accounts and recreated them but sooner or later I get the same error, I have a HTC Desire HD running with the latest updates. I have an 8gb SD card with 7gb available and the phone shows 0.99gb of internal storage available.

Please help.

Found a possible solution, let's see how it holds.

-Connect your phone to your pc in USB Storage mode
-access folder "/mnt/sdcard/.Mail"
-you will be surprised by the number of files you'll find there
-if I got it right you should delete the files older than the oldest email date you want to keep.

Try downloading emails, open big emails, etc and report, I'm being sucessful right now.

I found this solution in another forum.

All the best,

Sharro

Sharro,

Thanks for the suggestion. Even before I tried it my phone seems to have stopped giving me this error, not sure why.

I'll keep your suggestion in mind in case it comes back, as I suspect it will.

Did you take your phone to Verizon, or whoever your carrier is? I did yesterday, and they gave me a new phone, @ no charge. Seems they don't like fixing phones. Probably cheaper to give you a new one then to have some technician check it out, fix it, then send it back to you.
hope this helps.

On my HTC Amaze I continue to have the pop-up "there is not enough free space. please delete some messages and try again". I have deleted all but 10 of my messages, deleted and re configured the account but nothing seems to help.