[OT] Deleting Thousends of Messages in Gmail

[Amos Shapira]

What would be the advantage of Claws e-mail over the previously provided
GMail web interface search?
I got the impression the web interface can achieve this on the server side,
which will save network bandwidth and time.

On 24 August 2015 at 11:28, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 23:07:02 +0300
> Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
>
> > I know it's kinda off-topic, but I am really at a loss...
> >
> > I m trying to free spcace on my Google free storage, so i am sifting
> > through very old messages to delete in my Gmail box (as far as 2005
> > and beyond!)
> >
> > I have this one label containing 12,000(!) messages. I'd like to
> > delete all messages dated  before the current year.
>
> One easy way, if you can let things run overnight, is to install
> Claws-Mail, which is pretty darn fast. Point it at your Gmail IMAP,
> filter out everything before 1/1/2015 (the advanced search thing for
> selecting just the older messages is "ag" followed by a number of days
> (the number of days since 12/31/2014. Then highlight them all and run
> delete. Be sure you set Claws to delete immediately and not leave a
> ghost copy (I don't know how to explain it any better).
>
> Don't try this with Thunderbird. 12K messages with Thunderbird could
> take several days just to load up.
>
> SteveT
>
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