HT201238: iCloud storage plans and pricing
Learn about iCloud storage plans and pricing
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Sep 8, 2015 10:54 AM in response to cacumaby Drew Reece,You get 5GB free storage on iCloud.com. That includes your iOS backups & iCloud drive files in addition to the Mail.
In Mail on the Mac you can get info on the account to see how large each mailbox is. Select the iCloud mailbox, right click it (or ctrl+click) & choose 'Get Account Info'.
That will calculate the totals on the server. When you have found the mailbox that is using all your space you have a few options…
1. Delete the mail so that it is no longer on iCloud's servers
2. Move the messages to a 'local mailbox', these are only accessible on your Mac. Create a local mailbox via the 'Mailbox menu > New mailbox' & select 'On my Mac' as the location. be sure to delete any messages that are copied instead of moved.
If iCloud is not enough for you you can try Gmail or many of the other services, some have larger storage quotas, in fact if you need all the email in your history to be available to other devices online you can move iCloud mail messages to a Gmail or other account. It does get a bit confusing since you have mail sent to one address existing in another account. To do that add the gmail account to Mail.app & then move/ copy mail over.