How to delete 3500+ emails with webmail??
 

I have just looked at a little used "username.ntlworld.com" email account & it has over 3500 emails in the inbox. :shocked:

With only webmail available at the moment, can anyone suggest an easy way of deleting all these? :dunce:

Displaying, selecting & deleting only 20 at a time is likely to take days & I dont really want to be doing that. :rolleyes:

Re: How to delete 3500+ emails with webmail??
 

I know you say you've only got webmail available, but I'd think the quickest way is to wait till you get to a machine with an email client. Setup an account that retrieves the mail and deletes it from the server, and then delete the lot from the email client.

Re: How to delete 3500+ emails with webmail??
 

In Webmail, select the "Folders..." option on the left pane, you will then be able to select the "Del" option to clear out the Inbox.

Re: How to delete 3500+ emails with webmail??
 

Good to see a first time poster showing someone with 1400+ under their belt the simple answer.

Re: How to delete 3500+ emails with webmail??
 

Welll I'll be!

If in doubt, ask a granny, they know it all...lol

Took a few goes & it didn't delete the folder, just moved all the messages to the trash.

Then doing the same to that deletes them all.

Re: How to delete 3500+ emails with webmail??
 

That's exactly the same way yahoo and hotmail works, when you delete a message, it doesn't actually delete it, it puts into the trash can, just in case you have made a mistake and want to retrieve it.

Re: How to delete 3500+ emails with webmail??
 

HoTMaiL and Yahoo will then delete the trash after a number of days. Don't know if NTL does.

Re: How to delete 3500+ emails with webmail??
 

It did take several goes to get them all in the trash, it moved about 1000 at first, then odd numbers after that.

Then I had to try & empty the trash a few times.

Further looking into this, I could also have gone to the Options\Display page & set the number of posts to display to be infinate.
Might have taken a while to load but I could then select all & delete them :D

Re: How to delete 3500+ emails with webmail??
 

Yahoo is 30 days, not sure about Hotmail.

Re: How to delete 3500+ emails with webmail??
 

ntl mail wont delete the trash, it'll stay there until you delete it (and still counts towards your 10mb quota).