Sorry...I may have duplicated what Gustin sent. For some reason his message go to my spam folder. Must be all those things he sent me in the past about enhancing body parts. LOL! Kidding Gustin!
But I believe in the web interface there is the option to permanently delete messages. Maybe that diesn;t mean much & just there to make you feel good. Maybe it should be a "Submit to NSA before being permanently archived somewhere until it can be used agianst you" button. hahaha On 13-12-16 08:38 AM, Gustin Johnson wrote: > Connect to gmail with thunderbird over IMAP. Select all, hit the delete > key. Go get a coffee (or maybe get lunch then do some shopping, this is > going to take a while). > > Also understand that this is gmail, so nothing is actually deleted. All > you are doing is removing your access to those messages. > > Hth, > > PS - while rm will choke with a very large number of files, there are > examples in just about every language on how to iterate through all of > the objects and delete them individually. You could even use "find" by > using "rm" as part of the -exec parameter. > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Terrell Larson <t...@terralogic.net > <mailto:t...@terralogic.net>> wrote: > > Can you even delete one (1)? > > This is a serious question because I have had to do this but it was more > than 10 years ago and the file system can handle more files than the > delete utility can handle. > > So if you can delete _any_ then write a bash (or any shell) script and > chew through the mess. > > > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:02:05PM -0700, Juan Alberto Cirez wrote: > > How do I delete one million gmail messages? All the howtos on the > web are > > useless... > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > clug-talk@clug.ca <mailto:clug-talk@clug.ca> > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca <mailto:clug-talk@clug.ca> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
