<div dir="ltr">What would be the advantage of Claws e-mail over the previously provided GMail web interface search?<div>I got the impression the web interface can achieve this on the server side, which will save network bandwidth and time.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 August 2015 at 11:28, Steve Litt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com" target="_blank">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 23:07:02 +0300<br>
Amichai Rotman <<a href="mailto:amichai@iglu.org.il">amichai@iglu.org.il</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I know it's kinda off-topic, but I am really at a loss...<br>
><br>
> I m trying to free spcace on my Google free storage, so i am sifting<br>
> through very old messages to delete in my Gmail box (as far as 2005<br>
> and beyond!)<br>
><br>
> I have this one label containing 12,000(!) messages. I'd like to<br>
> delete all messages dated before the current year.<br>
<br>
One easy way, if you can let things run overnight, is to install<br>
Claws-Mail, which is pretty darn fast. Point it at your Gmail IMAP,<br>
filter out everything before 1/1/2015 (the advanced search thing for<br>
selecting just the older messages is "ag" followed by a number of days<br>
(the number of days since 12/31/2014. Then highlight them all and run<br>
delete. Be sure you set Claws to delete immediately and not leave a<br>
ghost copy (I don't know how to explain it any better).<br>
<br>
Don't try this with Thunderbird. 12K messages with Thunderbird could<br>
take several days just to load up.<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
<br>
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