Is is possible to delete ALL messages w/o closing account?

The "apply to the # converstations below"; works no matter how many results it finds. If you apply a filter and there is 250 messages that match what you're filtering, the check box off to the side will say "Apply filter to the 250 conversations below";

 

So it does filter all of the messages. So if you had that it would help out but I'm not sure when Google plans on rolling it out to all the accounts. I've had it for a long time now, and my roommate who has gmail as well still hasn't gotten it.

 

On 6/24/06, aphil02 <gmail.com">andrew.d.phillipsgmail.com> wrote:

Keith--

Thanks for posting those bmps. ; Since I almost never use Gmail's web
interface, apologies if I'm overlooking something obvious, but in order
to use the "delete all spam" or "empty all trash"; buttons, all of my
emails must already be in the spam or trash folders.&nbsp;  So I would then
need to move all of my archived mail using a filter -- but it appears
that Gmail doesn't let &nbsp;you apply a filter to existing messages -- only
to new mail.

So to make this work I need to apply a filter to existing messages.
Your screenshot has an option that I don't have, "apply to the #
conversations below"; -- but if filters can only be applied to new
messages and "messages displayed "below" won't that hit the same 100
message per screen
limitation that prevents us from just deleting the messages from the
archive directly?

The empty trash and empty spam buttons are great, but I'm not sure if
they help unless I can get the messages into those folders....

Maybe I'm missing something?




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