Slim down your Gmail Inbox
Although Gmail now offers over 2.5 GB of storage, it’s possible to fill that space up with PDFs, images, video and other attachments.
Digital Inspiration offers a list of tips 
to help you slim down your Gmail Inbox.
The post points out that Gmail doesn’t allow you to search for messages by size. However, Mail.app does, so downloading your Gmail into Apple Mail is not only protection against unexpected disasters at Gmail’s end, but allows you to find the disk space hogs.
If you do use Mail.app to read and manage your Gmail, you may not often visit the web interface and see the message about the amount of space you are using. A full account could creep up on you without warning.
The Gmail Counter Dashboard widget meets that needs. It keeps track of the amount of space you are using.
It’s freeware and available from Dashboard Widgets .
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May 7th, 2006 at 10:34 am
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
May 7th, 2006 at 11:35 am
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.
May 8th, 2006 at 6:11 am
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.