Tekbudda you are partially correct. If you do a search from the search bar you are only going to see 20 email. If you are trying to get rid of everything - from the left hand column select "All Mail" (you will see what ever you default number is set to - 50 100) then chose "All" in the section box - you will be offered to select all email. You click on this and then the delete trash can it will label all email "Trash" It will remain in trash for 30 days unless you explicit go to Trash and delete it. I does take a bit of time to see it all be gone - and yes if you request very soon after you may recover the deleted mail. You better have your "pin number" on hand before making such a request.
Bill Rayment Applitec Systems Inc 1 403 630 4848 > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:44:34 -0700 > From: TekBudda <tekbu...@gmail.com> > To: clug-talk@clug.ca > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] clug-talk Digest, Vol 109, Issue 6 > Message-ID: <52b15262.5010...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Just throwing my two cents in. I think the web interface limits yo to > viewing 100 messages at a time, so the volume you are talking about > would take a long time & you would still need to empty the trash. > > I think filtering is going to be your best option whatever method you > choose to use. I would set up filters on the web interface first & let > google do the heavy lifting. If there are mess ages that you either > know are junk or that you know you want to keep, filter based on those > parameters. I believe that you can set the filters to select "Not" > messages. For example. You want to keep all messages related to trout > so you set the filter to delete everything that is not related to trout. > > I have also used the message filter in Thunderbird effectively to move > my email around as well. > > Similar to the pop3 option you could use Imap & filter things locally & > do any filtering locally & then delete as you go. You would still have > the message locally & on the server just in case. You could then set > the account to purge the deleted items on close. > > Whatever you end up doing be prepared for swear words, frustration & a > lot of time being bored. LOL! >
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