I logged in my YHOO account after years of not logging in and I saw

sdowney717 · Dec 13, 2024

my email. Just kept coming in.
Makes me think how many other email accounts I used to have that I never use or even forgotten.

I like the look of the page, compared with outlook which looks very cluttered with 3 panes splashed across the page

I really have gotten away from looking at email, I prefer hand written letters.

pseymour · Dec 13, 2024

This is totally not related, but seeing your name reminded me of the VB posts a while back. Have you seen this?

AvaloniaVisualBasic.Browser

sdowney717 · Dec 13, 2024

My problem with email is bloat, it is stuffed with tens of thousands of mostly junk email, and it takes a long time to clean up and it reminds me too much of work, and I don't work anymore.

sdowney717 · Dec 13, 2024

pseymour said:
This is totally not related, but seeing your name reminded me of the VB posts a while back. Have you seen this?

AvaloniaVisualBasic.Browser

Hi yes, that's me.
I clicked and get shown a simple page, what is it?

idgat · Dec 13, 2024

What do you want help with?

sdowney717 · Dec 13, 2024

idgat said:
What do you want help with?

How would you clean out tens of thousands of emails?
That would be helpful

Edwin · Dec 13, 2024

sdowney717 said:
How would you clean out tens of thousands of emails?

Ctrl/Shift click first and last>Delete.

sdowney717 · Dec 13, 2024

Edwin said:
Ctrl/Shift click first and last>Delete.

For real? which client does that work with.

Edwin · Dec 13, 2024

sdowney717 said:
For real? which client does that work with.

I assumed you were trying from within your browser.
10's of thousands might be pushing it though!
Don't know about Yahoo, but, Gmail you select All>Delete

ProgEngi · Dec 13, 2024

sdowney717 said:
Hi yes, that's me.
I clicked and get shown a simple page, what is it?

View attachment 119260

When I clicked the link the above comes for a flash of a second and then changes to

pseymour · Dec 13, 2024

Yep, it's VB6 running in a browser. Hah!

Helmut · Dec 13, 2024

Yahoo Mail:
Tick box (All) top left of message list > Delete.

Alternative methods are the standard ones used in many Apps. Shift + Click for start and end of range > Delete.

"For real? which client does that work with."
All of them, Webmail and including various Email clients.

Obviously with thousands it will take time.

You had better look at Yahoo T&C as some free Accounts may have sign in requirements and may freeze/delete accounts after a certain time period.

Edwin · Dec 13, 2024

Helmut said:
Obviously with thousands it will take time.

About 20 minutes!

Then another 20 minutes to empty the Trash!

idgat · Dec 13, 2024

sdowney717 said:
For real? which client does that work with.

Any/all, it's a built-in Windows command

I'll define @Edwin 's contribution ...
Click (Select) first email/file in group to be deleted > Ctrl+Shift+Click last email in group to be deleted > Delete

Alternatively, CTRL+A to select everything, then holding the CTRL key click each email (that process unselects the individual item) to keep the ones you don't want to delete

Or a combination of the both - select a group of emails/files, the Ctrl+Click the odd one or two you want to keep > Delete

Works with emails (in an email client - e.g. freeware Thunderbird, eMClient) as well as file lists (e.g. Windows Explorer), etc

Alternatively, if you're using a web browser, select the All option to check all boxes, then just manually go through and untick the ones you want to keep > Delete

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