On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 23:07:02 +0300 Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il> wrote:
> I know it's kinda off-topic, but I am really at a loss... > > I m trying to free spcace on my Google free storage, so i am sifting > through very old messages to delete in my Gmail box (as far as 2005 > and beyond!) > > I have this one label containing 12,000(!) messages. I'd like to > delete all messages dated before the current year. One easy way, if you can let things run overnight, is to install Claws-Mail, which is pretty darn fast. Point it at your Gmail IMAP, filter out everything before 1/1/2015 (the advanced search thing for selecting just the older messages is "ag" followed by a number of days (the number of days since 12/31/2014. Then highlight them all and run delete. Be sure you set Claws to delete immediately and not leave a ghost copy (I don't know how to explain it any better). Don't try this with Thunderbird. 12K messages with Thunderbird could take several days just to load up. SteveT _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
