I personaly dont visit the webinterface that much anymore. I tend use access imap from my computer or phone. Hoping to migrate away from google stuff in the new year as I really dont feel like them giving my crap to the nsa or other groups.
But good tip to know! On 13-12-18 04:34 PM, Bill Rayment wrote: > 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 <mailto:tekbu...@gmail.com>> > To: clug-talk@clug.ca <mailto:clug-talk@clug.ca> > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] clug-talk Digest, Vol 109, Issue 6 > Message-ID: <52b15262.5010...@gmail.com > <mailto: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! > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
