Over 17,000 emails HELP

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How do you clear out your inbox when it's got to this state?

Clearly my ostrich approach isn't working 😆🪶

120,683 I've got

Search for senders and delete in batches.

Declare email bankruptcy and get a different email address?

If you're in Gmail, Search by key words (like shops you have emails from) select all, press and hold the circle on one of them, unsubscribe and report as spam, delete all. Do for everything.

As pp said - but don't forget to unsubscribe to websites as you go.

Set up a folder call it something like 'backlog' or 'embarrassing number of old emails' and put everything there. Nice and clean empty inbox then.

In a while you can just delete the folder once you realise you don't need them

How far do they go back? Because if it's been months, they are not worth thinking about.

And yes, keywords. My 57 is looking pretty good right now.

Work email or personal account?

Are there any you actually need?

If not select all, as many as it will let you. And delete them.

I need to do mine soon.

On my email you can select 'not read' then press delete.

I can't be bothered to clear mine. About 80,000 now.
I did start one day, but the boredom was too much and I decided Gmail would kindly take care of it for me eventually...
If not, I'm just going to wait for the internet to run out or my laptop to explode, whichever comes first.

My emails are ok but my photos

Outlook lets you sweep emails which is brilliant - you select one, and all of them by that sender go where you decide!

🙌😆

But I've had it for over 20 years! It's vintage!

Like I say, vintage - it's Yahoo 🙈

I do!! But the fuckers keep coming!

I like this plan 🙌

Don’t delete them on your phone go into the actual service provider website or they’ll all just appear again

Smug

Presumably you'll have dealt with everything that actually needed dealing with? Even if you haven't, you'll get reminders. Delete everything and going forward, every single time you get spam emails, unsubscribe.

It should still have similar functions. Or write it off and set up a Gmail.

Mark them as spam

Re 'vintage', I realised an account I had was still linked to an old wanadoo address 😬
Took a bit off piffling about to sort that one!
(Come to think of it, there's probably some AOL related ones somewhere 😂...)

If I had 17k unread work emails I’d hand in my notice!