Okay, a little background. I have a Yahoo.com email account that I only use for online shopping. Subsequently, I only check it every couple of weeks. When I recently checked, I found 2000+ unread emails. I had obviously ticked a box somewhere. Most of the emails are daily offers from just 2 or 3 sites. I have unsubscribed but now need to clean up my mailbox.
Is there a way to mass delete everything? I have tried altering my reading pane but can only get the first 20 or so emails to show at once and deleting 2000+ emails that way would take forever.
Do Yahoo.com email accounts have a mail filter setting? If so, can I set it to shift all the daily emails to one folder (that I can delete later) and will the filters work on any unread emails or just on new ones?
Any info or other suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you
5 Answers -
Tina
March 9, 2011Metahawk,
in Yahoo Mail you can show up to 200 messages / results per page. This way you only have to ‘select all’ and ‘delete all’ 10 times each.
Go to > Options (top right) > Mail Options > General, select the number of messages to display from the > ‘Messages/results per page’ drop-down menu, and click > Save Changes (top left).
Next you can switch to > Filters (left-hand menu) and set up filters to sort mail into pre-defined folders in the future. Unfortunately, this only works for incoming mail. You cannot run the filter on mail that already sits in your inbox.
Thank you for that – helps a lot. I’ll be careful what I tick next time
March 10, 2011Thanks for the feedback.
March 10, 2011now just in case you are still having the issue. if you go into setting you can view as a scroll bar. then select all, hit spam/delete and poof!
January 17, 2012Tvouk
January 21, 2012Thanks!!!
Rich
January 24, 2012I am presently deleting 64,000+ emails sent from a subscription site to one of my folders. Thought it was time for a mass clear out… With Yahoo Classic view mail, change your settings in Options from viewing 200 messages per page to ‘short preview without text…’
This was a time saving move – not bad for less than 5 clicks of the mouse!
Rich – thanks for this! Totally worked to delete 24,000 mails at one go.
May 8, 2012By the way – I think I’m using the new Yahoo Mail, and the option to check is called “In a scrolling list (hide Preview Pane)”. Hope this helps someone.
May 8, 2012Candice_otto
February 25, 2012switch to scrolling view in settings and ctl+a delete all at once !
dude i friggin love u so much!!! you saved me and my gf from being expelled
thanks a ton!!
May 11, 2012Haris
May 9, 2012I don’t know. But I know that Google (gmail) can do it.