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Thanks for submitting a tip for review! Advertisement ReferencesAbout This ArticleThanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 94,979 times. Is this article up to date?Updated: 08/31/2020 by Most of us are not great at keeping up with the number of messages sent to our inboxes. While you can delete them individually or a few at a time, junk mail or infrequent account usage
can necessitate the removal of thousands of messages. This page shows you how to clear all messages in your inbox (or other folders) at the same time. To proceed, choose your e-mail service from the list below and follow the steps. Gmail only allows users to
view 50 messages per page. To delete more than that, you can use the Search mail feature.
Tip If you would like to delete all of the messages in your Gmail account, you can type label:All into the Search mail bar. HOWEVER, do note that this method deletes every message in every folder in your Gmail account, so proceed with caution. Yahoo! MailBy default, Yahoo Mail does not offer a direct option to delete a folder's entire contents, and only shows its first 40 messages. To delete more than 40 at once, you first need to scroll down in the folder to populate the list with all messages. How to delete every message in a folder
Outlook.comMicrosoft's Outlook.com webmail service is the most straightforward when deleting an entire folder's worth of e-mail messages. How to delete every message in a folder
Microsoft OutlookSimilar to its online counterpart Outlook.com, Microsoft's software-based version of Outlook allows users to delete an entire folder's worth of e-mails, no matter how many it contains. How to delete every message in a folder
Mozilla ThunderbirdThunderbird requires you to select all messages in the folder that you want to delete, and then choose to permanently erase them. While this two-step solution isn't ideal, it may keep you from getting rid of messages you meant to keep. How to delete every message in a folder
How can I delete all my emails at once?To delete all emails on Gmail, click the "Select all" box, then "Select all conversations." Use your search bar to find emails from specific senders for mass deletion.. Log in to your Gmail account. ... . Click on the boxes next to the emails you want to permanently delete.. Click Delete forever.. |