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Question

Email maxed.How can I clean out w/o 1 pg @time?

Aug 23, 2014 6:24AM PDT

I used 193% (???) of my roadrunner email account, with over 30,000 emails sitting in it. I finally started deleting them, but going one page at a time. There are some emails in throughout it that I want to still save. My emails are no longer being delivered, as I get a notice when each would have come thru, from an administrator.
Is there a quicker way to delete these? Some are from the beginning of 2012.

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Without calling?
Aug 23, 2014 6:32AM PDT
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100707143737AA52U8l notes you way be able to do a few hundred at a time but it sounds like you are using WEB MAIL. Here I use an EMAIL CLIENT and as such my emails are on my PC then after the PC gets them, the EMAIL CLIENT (an app like Thunderbird) deletes the email off the server.
Bob
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I just posted an answer, but it didn't get posted. ????????
Aug 23, 2014 6:49AM PDT

I don't know what happened to my post. It didn't make it, so I'll try again. Click the first email in the list, then browse to the last one, hold down the SHIFT key and click that last email. Now everything between the two will be highlighted. Then to un-highlight the ones you want to keep, press the CTRL key and click on the ones you want to keep. That un-highlights them. When done with this process, click DELETE and it'll delete everything that's highlighted.

Good luck.

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Re: delering e-mails
Aug 23, 2014 6:55AM PDT

Bob gave a -rather hidden - suggestion:
Insfall Thinderbird and let it download all mails to your PC, while deleting them from the server. Result: server is 0% full (at least the inbox, not other boxes) and you can use Thunderbird do delete what you don't want to keep. Sorting by sender or subject, and the ability to select and delete hundreds in one command makes this easier than via webmail.
This is not a solution for your Sent Items and all other folders you organised your read mail in.

Kees

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Aug 24, 2014 12:55AM PDT

see if you can connect Thunderbird to roadrunner via imap. That gives the power of an e-mail client directly linked to the server.

Kees