{"id":12605,"date":"2026-07-17T09:44:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/?p=12605"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:37:23","slug":"hostinger-mail-how-to-reduce-mailboxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/hostinger-mail-how-to-reduce-mailboxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Mail: how to reduce mailboxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can reduce the total number of allowed mailboxes in your Hostinger email<\/strong> plan directly from your hpanel. This feature allows you to adjust your email plan capacity dynamically without needing to cancel<\/strong> or downgrade<\/strong> your entire email subscription.<\/p>

Reduce the mailbox quantity<\/h2>
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    Log in to your Hostinger account to access hPanel.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Navigate to the Emails<\/b> section and click Mailboxes<\/strong> button to open the management dashboard for your specific email plan.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    On the Manage mailboxes<\/strong> section, locate the Add mailboxes<\/b> option.
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    Click the dropdown arrow next to Add mailboxes<\/b> and select Remove mailboxes<\/b>.
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    In the configuration modal that appears, specify the exact number of mailboxes to remove from your plan.
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    Select your preferred refund method for the removed capacity:<\/p>\n

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      Credits to Hostinger balance: <\/b>the calculated refund is added to your internal Hostinger account balance immediately.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      Refund to original payment method: <\/b>the refund is processed back to your original payment gateway within 3–10 business days.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n

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      Confirm the changes to complete the mailbox reduction.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>

      The maximum mailbox limits for the Hostinger email plan update instantly in your dashboard, and the selected refund method initiates automatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Remove unused mailboxes from your Hostinger email plan directly in hPanel to adjust your subscription capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hostinger-email-management"],"hreflangs":[],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12611,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions\/12611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}