On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 23:01 +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Herbert Graf<hkgraf@gmail.com> 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.

That depends on how you have the IMAP client set up, on my phone I have
it set to "move to server trash", which indeed moves the messages to the
trash. The other option is "delete them from the server", sounds pretty
obvious and final from the description!! :)

TTYL

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