Huge weight off my shoulders

Wait... you're supposed to do this monthly?????

.....uh oh.

I've got 28 years of emails I need to clean up....
- 28 years of [email]
  I thought I had 27 but I only have 26, from Feb 1998 onward.
- At that point it's an archeological site, not an inbox. I'd almost hate to delete stuff pre-2000 just because it's a bit of a time capsule into a different era.
Just select all and delete it all. If it's really important they'll email again.
- But what if I need that random e receipt from 6 years ago ???????
- I'm more of a select all, mark read type of guy, but whatever's clever
- I can only load and select 100 at a time. Every year or so I attempt to tackle it but it's a sisyphus task.
I try to check my mail every day and delete all that are not necessary to keep. I have rarely failed so miserably at anything else.
I was helping a lady whose data limit was an inch away from being reached and it was all emails. She must have had 200k unread alone.
- If she read an email every 15 seconds on average to determine whether it needs to be kept or deleted, it would take her 34 days NON STOP to get through that list of unreads.... gotta just nuke and start over

select all click delete

Hell yeah I did it!

Ha, it would probably take me a month to clean up my 10k+ email inbox. Work email though, I refuse to have more than 15 sitting in my inbox.

It takes maybe 2h

This I don't get. Your work doesn't archive emails? There's been many times I was asked a question I knew came up years ago and thanks to the archive of mails I could answer the question quickly instead of starting from scratch again.

there is no spelling error in the title of this post. I love having an edit button.

What spelling error?
- Nice fix.
  And now I know it's possible, so no one else has an excuse!

I haven't done my five years email cleaning and the weight on my shoulders is unbearable.

Just do it! It shouldn't take more than 2 hours
- Two hours, how? Teach me master!

Is that why people are surprised when they see I have over 6000 unread mails?

You gotta pump those numbers up! I have over 32K emails in my oldest GMail account (I still use it to sign up to things, so my main account can remain "pure" as long as possible) and I've read maybe 5% of them.

My inbox hasn’t been clear since 1999

But what if I NEED one of these emails in ten years?

It hasn't happened yet, but what if it did?

If the email is a month old and I don't remember what it is about, off to the done folder with it.

If it were truely important, the would have made a ticket about it.

I have my personal inbox set to automatically mark an email as read if it contains the word unsubscribe. It makes managing my email a lot easier

i had over 75K emails in my personal inbox, when i clicked 'mark all as read' it was a spiritual orgasm. then i spent an hour clicking on every unsubscribe button i could find. no ragrets.

I clean out my inbox every decayear.

This is easy, CTRL+A, Delete

Problem solved.

I like to check the first couple email in one of my several email addresses once a year and have never missed anything that i know about

I just turned off the notification badges for unread emails years ago and it stopped being a problem.

I made a new Gmail account about a year ago that I have not used for anything (have not sent any email, or used it to sign up for anything, nor have I given it to anyone for work or general contact), and it started getting spam already. Which means either things are just using random addresses to spam, or Google themselves are sharing it.

ITT: so many people who pluralize emails like trafficks. (Sounds weird, right?)