Check Zimbra Mailbox Size with zmmailbox

Zimbra Community Mailbox Size CentOS 6

November 1, 2026 · by Zwiegnet Consulting · Linux

Zimbra Community Mailbox Size CentOS 6

To find the mailbox size of an individual user for Zimbra, you have to be logged into Zimbra as the Zimbra user

all commands in relation to mailbox are handled by the zmmailbox command,

Let’s start at the beginning, the only way to learn a system in-and-out is to study the help

let’s move on to an example!

here’s an example on how to get info on the mailbox for user@mydomain.com, the z means use zimbra admin, and the m specifies a mailbox

as you can see, it outputs the value of the mailbox size.

if you want to see the amount of emails in individual folders, issue the following:

it outputs as follows:

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