Comments on: Slim down your Gmail Inbox

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 07 May 2006 20:11:50 +0000

Are you kidding Roger? Unless you are using an old web browser, there is a button right above the first email that says “All”. You hit that and all the emails on the page get checked. Then you can easily delete 50 messages at a time.

That has been there since the service started.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 07 May 2006 01:35:58 +0000

I don’t use Gmail much, so Im not an expert. But I have found that a work-around for this problem is to use filters.

For some of the mailing lists I get, I have filters set up to mark them with labels as “Gmail alerts” or “press releases” or whatever.

Then I just filter the view by that label, select all and hit delete. It’s not as fast as I would like, but it is faster than doing it one by one.

By: Roger Harris

Roger Harris — Sun, 07 May 2006 00:34:47 +0000

I am ready to dump gmail because I cannot find an easy way to deleat numbers of useless emails at once. I subscribe to email lists and get a lot of email. In Yahoo mail I can click the “sender” box and sellect all email on the page and then deselect ones of interest while deleating the others. I cannot find a way to check all emails in gmail.

Roger