outlook email WEB? No way to search and delete ALL emails from someone?

sdowney717 · 2025-02-27T10:06:06-0500

I was wanting to mass delete say 1000 emails from some particular place.
Is there some way to do it in one go? Rather than select and click 75 at a time.

I did find I can right click inbox and empty the entire inbox, thereby destroying the account and usefulness of outlook web for any purpose.
I have 26,000 mostly useless emails.

Should I abandon Outlook and start over with something else? As right now it is pretty useless.
And I was wondering if MSFT will stop working if it gets too full

garlin · 2025-02-27T12:04:28-0500

Are talking about Outlook.com or OWA (Outlook Web Access)?

The typical answer is to search an unique term (sender, domain, etc.). Click the "Check all" square box in the top left header of the messages pane. Now depending on how positive you are about selecting the right search terms:

1. Delete all the selected mails. Now.

2. Move them to a newly created folder. Browse folder to confirm there's no false positives (other mail accidentally swept up). Delete the folder.

sdowney717 · 2025-02-27T12:34:42-0500

WEB MAIL outlook.com. I hate how MS does not distinguish outlook better

sdowney717 · 2025-02-27T12:36:50-0500

garlin said:
Are talking about Outlook.com or OWA (Outlook Web Access)?

The typical answer is to search an unique term (sender, domain, etc.). Click the "Check all" square box in the top left header of the messages pane. Now depending on how positive you are about selecting the right search terms:

1. Delete all the selected mails. Now.

2. Move them to a newly created folder. Browse folder to confirm there's no false positives (other mail accidentally swept up). Delete the folder.

When you do that, max I can delete in one operation is 75 emails. That is why I started this thread. I want to delete all at once on a search term.

So, when you delete 75 items, they go and another 75 load, delete 75, and another 75 appear. etc.... I have way too many junky emails from forums and websites that I get spammed with now for years, and they add up to tens of thousands. And it has made the account about worthless, too hard to use.

Is there some other way to access the email account with a better program?

garlin · 2025-02-27T12:53:10-0500

1. Create a new rule.

2. Some other mail clients will connect to Outlook.com accounts.
POP, IMAP, and SMTP settings for Outlook.com - Microsoft Support

sdowney717 · 2025-02-27T13:05:43-0500

Ok giving it a go. Created a rule to delete Subway emails. It ran 556 in a minute putting them into deleted items folder.
Emptying the deleted items is running for 5 minutes now. Why does it take so long?

sdowney717 · 2025-02-27T13:15:54-0500

Still running that rule.
If I cancel, will it restore all the deleted emails?
I think it is stuck.
I vaguely recall doing this before and it gets stuck. I saw I already have a bunch of rules I setup years ago.

garlin · 2025-02-27T13:23:00-0500

Cancelling a rule leaves your mailbox in whatever state it's currently in. It doesn't undo whatever progress was made before cancellation.

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