What would be the advantage of Claws e-mail over the previously provided GMail web interface search? I got the impression the web interface can achieve this on the server side, which will save network bandwidth and time.
On 24 August 2015 at 11:28, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 23:07:02 +0300 > Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > > > I know it's kinda off-topic, but I am really at a loss... > > > > I m trying to free spcace on my Google free storage, so i am sifting > > through very old messages to delete in my Gmail box (as far as 2005 > > and beyond!) > > > > I have this one label containing 12,000(!) messages. I'd like to > > delete all messages dated before the current year. > > One easy way, if you can let things run overnight, is to install > Claws-Mail, which is pretty darn fast. Point it at your Gmail IMAP, > filter out everything before 1/1/2015 (the advanced search thing for > selecting just the older messages is "ag" followed by a number of days > (the number of days since 12/31/2014. Then highlight them all and run > delete. Be sure you set Claws to delete immediately and not leave a > ghost copy (I don't know how to explain it any better). > > Don't try this with Thunderbird. 12K messages with Thunderbird could > take several days just to load up. > > SteveT > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer>
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