How do I delete 20 000 messages from Yahoo without doing it page by page ?

[travellingwilbury]

I registered with Yahoo last yr for Freecycle but I soon got bored with it , I haven't been on there for a wee while and went on today and I have nearly 20 000 messages which I want to delete but can't be arsed to go through page by page . Surely there must be an easier way of doing it and I am just missing it ?

Please

Bumping for you.

I don't know but I have far more than you.

Thanks to both of you , so do you think I should just ignore it then scrooged ?

I did think that it would slow things down a wee bit having it all just sitting there

I ignored mine. I now have 37,227 emails. . I wouldn't know how to start getting rid of them.

I just deleted 2008 page by page. I thought that was bad enough!

Serves me right.

You probably know you can tick the box just above the emails which ticks all emails on that page. If you go into Options (top right) and then General Preferences you can make it show 200 a page which means you can delete 200 at a time.

Under the emails list there is a 'Check All' button. I don't have enough in there to test to see if that means ALL emails, but it might.

Hmm. I'll try that.

Check all just means that page , I think I will just leave it . Does anyone know if it will slow things down ? Even at 200 at a time I think my life is too short to spend all that time deleting e mails

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