Thank you all, Roman's solution did the trick!
I was able to reduce my storage from 91% to 87%!. Amichai. 2015-08-24 4:48 GMT+03:00 Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com>: > 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> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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