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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Wait... you're supposed to do this monthly?????

.....uh oh.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've got 28 years of emails I need to clean up....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

At that point it's an archeological site, not an inbox. I'd almost hate to delete stuff pre-2000 just because it's a bit of a time capsule into a different era.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

28 years of [email]

I thought I had 27 but I only have 26, from Feb 1998 onward.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Just select all and delete it all. If it's really important they'll email again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can only load and select 100 at a time. Every year or so I attempt to tackle it but it's a sisyphus task.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

If you create a rule for a specific email address, you can send it all into a folder, then mark the folder as read. Or, you know, just send all to junk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

But what if I need that random e receipt from 6 years ago ???????

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I'm more of a select all, mark read type of guy, but whatever's clever

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I try to check my mail every day and delete all that are not necessary to keep. I have rarely failed so miserably at anything else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I was helping a lady whose data limit was an inch away from being reached and it was all emails. She must have had 200k unread alone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

If she read an email every 15 seconds on average to determine whether it needs to be kept or deleted, it would take her 34 days NON STOP to get through that list of unreads.... gotta just nuke and start over

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

select all click delete

Hell yeah I did it!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ha, it would probably take me a month to clean up my 10k+ email inbox. Work email though, I refuse to have more than 15 sitting in my inbox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It takes maybe 2h

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Personal email? Squeaky clean. Work email? I keep all of them for later reference. Currently have 6500. It'd be more of it wasn't for our 1 year retention policy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This I don't get. Your work doesn't archive emails? There's been many times I was asked a question I knew came up years ago and thanks to the archive of mails I could answer the question quickly instead of starting from scratch again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's how it was at my old job and I miss it. At my current workplace they only retain mail on the server for 1 year. If you want to retain it longer you have to archive it yourself and I just don't have the local storage to archive all of my email on my machine like that. (External storage devices also aren't allowed.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

there is no spelling error in the title of this post. I love having an edit button.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Nice fix.

And now I know it's possible, so no one else has an excuse!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

My inbox hasn’t been clear since 1999

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't done my five years email cleaning and the weight on my shoulders is unbearable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just do it! It shouldn't take more than 2 hours

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Two hours, how? Teach me master!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I had my inbox filled, so I started creating rules

Emails from (let's say) Google are to be sent to a folder called Google. When creating a rule, it asks you if you want to apply it to the inbox.

Check that, wait for a few minutes, and all Google emails will be inside the new folder. Once you start sorting you will notice that the amount of emails in your inbox reduces drastically.

I created rules that check the email contents for keywords. If it detects ads, then it goes straight to the bin.

Has worked for me for some years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is that why people are surprised when they see I have over 6000 unread mails?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You gotta pump those numbers up! I have over 32K emails in my oldest GMail account (I still use it to sign up to things, so my main account can remain "pure" as long as possible) and I've read maybe 5% of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

But what if I NEED one of these emails in ten years?

It hasn't happened yet, but what if it did?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

If the email is a month old and I don't remember what it is about, off to the done folder with it.

If it were truely important, the would have made a ticket about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I have my personal inbox set to automatically mark an email as read if it contains the word unsubscribe. It makes managing my email a lot easier

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

i had over 75K emails in my personal inbox, when i clicked 'mark all as read' it was a spiritual orgasm. then i spent an hour clicking on every unsubscribe button i could find. no ragrets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I just turned off the notification badges for unread emails years ago and it stopped being a problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I like to check the first couple email in one of my several email addresses once a year and have never missed anything that i know about

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I clean out my inbox every decayear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This is easy, CTRL+A, Delete

Problem solved.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

ITT: so many people who pluralize emails like trafficks. (Sounds weird, right?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I made a new Gmail account about a year ago that I have not used for anything (have not sent any email, or used it to sign up for anything, nor have I given it to anyone for work or general contact), and it started getting spam already. Which means either things are just using random addresses to spam, or Google themselves are sharing it.