Most probably your Google photos or Google drive is eating the space. Mails do not take lot of space even if you have thousands of them. 
 Check if photos are synced to Google or drive has some large files.

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Hi,

It's showing my gmail storage is full and prompting me to buy storage else mail send/receiving would stop.
Now how to overcome this? i deleted old emails

Hi,

It's showing my gmail storage is full and prompting me to buy storage else mail send/receiving would stop.
Now how to overcome this? i deleted old emails , but still it shows storage is full. I don't have a lot of photos or files too. Any jugaad works here? Plz pour inputs... TIA

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