On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Herbert Graf wrote: > 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. > I believe using IMAP will not delete the emails from the Gmail server but rather keep them in the server. I believe that POP3 access is the correct way. -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist