On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 01:08 -0700, Tobias Gogolin wrote:
> Hi folks I'm running out of storage space (>7GB) on my Gmail account.
> Regrettably the tools to manage my account and select all mails before a
> certain date for example seem to not exist...
> 
> over the last few day I have downloaded all my 7GB using a program called
> "Gmail Backup'
> Now I'm going to try to see if I can delete all the >142000 messages at the
> same time to get a fresh start.
> 
> If anybody knows some tricks that would be interesting!

Use an IMAP client, you can do all your filtering and everything in the
client and it will delete them on the gmail server.

TTYL

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