How delete over 20,000 old emails messages easily?

I was helping a friend today with her Verizon email account. When we logged into Verizon webmail, we found that there were over 20,000 old read emails in her inbox, dating back to 2008.

I found a way to delete 50 at a time, but deleting 1000's that way was not practical.

I could find no way to select by date range to remove large blocks of messages. For example, delete all old messages in 2008, then all in 2009, etc.

How can you delete over 20,000 old emails messages easily? (And still leave the most recent, say in 2012.)

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whodat1231

Hey all.

To delete all of your messages from your inbox, go to the settings tab, and then go down to "Number of messages per page" and set it to "No limit". Hit "Save" at the top and then hit OK when it asks you to refresh your browser. Then in your inbox, check the box that is to the left of "Sender" and hit delete. It will take a long time if you have that many messages, but it'll get done. Cheers!

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somegirl

@JPH wrote:
I was helping a friend today with her Verizon email account. When we logged into Verizon webmail, we found that there were over 20,000 old read emails in her inbox, dating back to 2008.
I found a way to delete 50 at a time, but deleting 1000's that way was not practical.
I could find no way to select by date range to remove large blocks of messages. For example, delete all old messages in 2008, then all in 2009, etc.
How can you delete over 20,000 old emails messages easily? (And still leave the most recent, say in 2012.)

The easiest way I can think of to do that would be to set up a pop3 client and set it to "Delete from the server after ___."

whodat1231

Hey all.

carol619

I have over 4,ooo msgs I broke my hand and cannot delete them at once dates August through December

cblack7830

This worked great! Many thanks!!!

Woloch1

Hey I had the same problem and found the solution here. Thanks, you genius!

patmattmom

Wow - thank you = i just deleted over 40K messages!

Busybean1

Thank you! I am so grateful to whodat1231 - I had more than 32,000 emails in there! I feel lighter already!

armond_in_nj1

@Busybean wrote:

... I had more than 32,000 emails in there! I feel lighter already!

How much does a photon weigh?

hs611

how do you set up a pop3 client (for the purpose of deleting thousands of old emails)?

TomH121

ON THE CURRENT VERSION OF EMAIL

Settings>General Settings>Display>Number of Messages per page>NO LIMIT

Then when you delete ALL WILL GO....

tns2

Look for one of the popular ones.

Microsoft live mail

Thunderbird

Make sure you use the officail sites (microsoft or Mozilla.org for the ones I mentioned.)

AnkitTechy

Hello! If you want to delete multiple emails or selected emails quickly and easily, here I will tell you how to do it with a single click.

You can easily delete many or all emails in bulk with this easy method.

Open the specific email folder that you want to delete.
Select multiple or all emails, and click on the Delete key to delete permanently.

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