There is a message showing:
You’re out of storage space and will soon be unable to send or receive emails until you [free up space][1] or [purchase additional storage][2].
at the top of Gmail's page, as such:
[![enter image description here][3]][3]
How long is "soon"? Within how many days must we react?
Is there more information ("storage limit algorithm") regarding this issue?
Can we expect Gmail-drive to continue working while "out of storage" for 50 days or even twice of that duration?
• Currently Gmail is still able to send and receive emails seemingly perfectly, even with attachments (tested with an account on Yahoo Mail using *random* file [JMeter 2.8][4], 26,172,552 bytes). (Note that the .zip file extension [needs to be renamed][5] before sending otherwise Google's mail server would reject accepting the entire mail.) • [`google.com/settings/storage`][6] is showing:
[![enter image description here][7]][7]
And subscription payment has an error:
. • Gdrive is working fine too. Downloads are working as per normal, but uploads will show "Quota exceeded" message. [1]: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6558 [2]: https://accounts.google.com/b/0/PurchaseStorage [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/N9fK4.png [4]: https://archive.apache.org/dist/jmeter/binaries/## [5]: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/30030/how-to-allow-gmail-to-receive-zip-files#comment74035_51712 [6]: https://www.google.com/settings/storage [7]: https://i.sstatic.net/T0rS3.png