Deleting 10.000+ emails

Hi,

I'm trying to clean up my yahoo mail accounts, which goes back to... a very long time meaning 10.000+ emails to delete.

However, when I try to delete too many emails, it says it cannot do it. So I did manually for some of these, deleting 10 by 10 at a time, and then checked the trash bin (with some 8.000 emails) and when I clicked to empty the trash bin it says it can't...

I guess it's too many emails at a time, fine. What I'd like is maybe some sort of script to delete those 10.000+ emails which are before a certain date.

Is it possible? Can anyone here support this? I don't know how to contact Yahoo directly, so hope this community can help.

Thanks,

Virginie

 

What happens when you click on the Clean your inbox link?

 

Hi,

It offers to archive the emails... I'd like to delete them... completely.

V.

 

Take a look here
https://www.quora.com/I-have-10-102-items-in-my-Yahoo-Mail-inbox-How-can-I-delete-them-all-at-once

 

Hi,

Thanks. I actually did what one of the guy mentioned : I used Thunderbird to delete them. It took a bit of time, but far less than doing it 10 by 10 in the "webmail" version.....

Thanks for the time you spent looking for a solution !!

 

Welcome

 

Great to see this worked for you.

 

Thanks for posting this, I have few thousands of mails to delete as well.

 

No problem

 

Try to make something like few hundreds e-mails, like 200-300-500 at a time in the bin and all should work correctly. I am not seeing why it should work in some other way than that, hopefully it could help you. I had same problem and did like that.

 

Terem123
He already did that using thunderbird, see the comments above.