My YAHOO! e-mail inbox is displaying every single message I've ever received despite previously being deleted...

[notnowbernard]

Does anyone know why this is?

Or how I can delete them in a way that won't take all night?

There's over 5000 of them!!!

TIA

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Did you actually delete them or did they just get sent to a trash folder?

If they get sent to a trash folder you then have to empty that folder to permanently delete them. Otherwise there is a risk that when you go into the trash folder you press restore all rather than restore one and end up with a situation like you describe.

Crikey .

I had some old Hotmail emails suddenly pop up in my inbox at least 5 years after they were deleted (I know this as they were from my ex and I remember deleting them in a huff). I put them in a folder marked with his name and left them. They're still there .

You might be able to select 'all' and delete in one hit.

Thaks for responses

I found a way of deleting them quickly (holding down shift key and scrolling down - didn't take long)

Hope they don't all return though!

I get loads because it's the account all my Freecycle messages go to... I'm not an internet junkie