Is is possible to delete ALL messages w/o closing account?

[aphil02]

i have been using my gmail account to receive copies of business emails
as a temporary solution for receiving email on my windows mobile device
-- (only blackberry devices are supported by my employer).

long story short -- gmail archived all 7,000 of the emails i received
in the past 6 months, i now have a more secure solution to mobile
email, and i want to delete everything from gmail -- but would like to
keep the account as a personal address.

Is there any way of deleting the messages without going through all 70
pages?

I'm guessing the answer is no, but it's so frustrating.

thanks in advance

[Keith]

Hey man, there is a way to do it but not all gmail accounts have it. I've got a link iun my trash can that says "Delete all Trash" that lets me get rid of everything in the label all at once. I have one in my spam as well. I don't know how many people have it but it is kind of cool. If I knew how to do a screenshot I would do one and send it to the group so they could see it.

 

 

http://lazer1978.googlepages.com

Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/lazer78

[Fuzzy Logic]

There is no official way to do it. I heard of a Greasemonkey script to
do it, but I don't recall what it was called.

Fuzzy

[Fuzzy Logic]

That's probably a Greasemonkey script. That's not part of Gmail.

Fuzzy

[Keith]

Mines not a greasemonkey script becasue I use it in IE and not in firefox although when I log into firefox it is there too. I tried to do the screenshot but it didn't do anything when I hit the shift and print button. I'm going to try some other ways to see if I can show you all that I have it.

[Aaron Bird]

When you hit Prt Scrn Key it copy's it to the clipboard.

On 6/24/06, Keith <laze...@gmail.com> wrote:

Mines not a greasemonkey script becasue I use it in IE and not in firefox although when I log into firefox it is there too. I tried to do the screenshot but it didn't do anything when I hit the shift and print button. I'm going to try some other ways to see if I can show you all that I have it.

On 6/24/06, Fuzzy Logic < fuz...@gmail.com> wrote:

That's probably a Greasemonkey script. That's not part of Gmail.

Fuzzy

On 6/24/06, Keith < laze...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey man, there is a way to do it but not all gmail accounts have it. I've
> got a link iun my trash can that says "Delete all Trash" that lets me get
> rid of everything in the label all at once. I have one in my spam as well. I
> don't know how many people have it but it is kind of cool. If I knew how to
> do a screenshot I would do one and send it to the group so they could see
> it.

http://lazer1978.googlepages.com

Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/lazer78

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Aaron Bird

[Keith]

I still couldn't figure out how to do it....I'm no good with some of these shortcut keys but I did download a program that does screen captures for me. Only catch is that it did them as .bmp files and they were to big to send through email because if it's more than 1MB Google groups turns it away.

 

But I uploaded them to my Google page so here they are

 

'Apply filter to' when creating a new filter

http://lazer1978.googlepages.com/Gmail-Filter.bmp

 

'Empty trash folder'

http://lazer1978.googlepages.com/Gmail-Trash.bmp

 

"Empty spam folder'

http://lazer1978.googlepages.com/Gmail-Spam.bmp

Hope this helps you guys

 

 

 

 

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[aphil02]

Keith--

Thanks for posting those bmps. Since I almost never use Gmail's web
interface, apologies if I'm overlooking something obvious, but in order
to use the "delete all spam" or "empty all trash" buttons, all of my
emails must already be in the spam or trash folders. So I would then
need to move all of my archived mail using a filter -- but it appears
that Gmail doesn't let you apply a filter to existing messages -- only
to new mail.

So to make this work I need to apply a filter to existing messages.
Your screenshot has an option that I don't have, "apply to the #
conversations below" -- but if filters can only be applied to new
messages and "messages displayed "below" won't that hit the same 100
message per screen
limitation that prevents us from just deleting the messages from the
archive directly?

The empty trash and empty spam buttons are great, but I'm not sure if
they help unless I can get the messages into those folders....

Maybe I'm missing something?

[Ian Betts]

Keith not sure if you have got sorted yet but first the Prt Screen key copies you current screen to the clipboard. You then past it to Word or an Email pad and use it that way. Because it pastes at full size you will need to resize it with it Handles like a picture.

 

As to deletions. Gmail always says it empties trash automatically but most find it does not. You can set your option to see 100 messages per page and delete from any of your folders by Select All/Delete. This applies to both All Mail and Trash.

[Keith]

The "apply to the # converstations below" works no matter how many results it finds. If you apply a filter and there is 250 messages that match what you're filtering, the check box off to the side will say "Apply filter to the 250 conversations below"

 

So it does filter all of the messages. So if you had that it would help out but I'm not sure when Google plans on rolling it out to all the accounts. I've had it for a long time now, and my roommate who has gmail as well still hasn't gotten it.

 

Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/lazer78

[aphil02]

So after looking around a bit for a "quick" solution, I set the POP
settings to download, then delete -- then changed my download setting
to "Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)"

I just let all the messages download to the POP client and that moved
everything to trash.

I was then out of options -- but deleting 7000 messages actually only
took about 5 minutes at 100 per page. Now totally clean!

Thanks for everyone's input.