Gmail actually has some very powerful search options built in, above and beyond the ones that I've shown you how to use. In the example above it would find all email in your inbox, all unread email, all email in your inbox and all emails from Bill Gates, regardless of where they're located. Once you've narrowed your search down, you can select all of the emails that are returned and delete them in one go. You can also use 'OR' between search terms.

From: finds all messages from a person.ĭon't forget, you can chain multiple requests, so: ' label:inbox is:unread from: would find all unread email from Bill Gates in your inbox.

To:, lets you search for all messages to a person.

Label: gives you all email from one label, such as label:inbox to search just your inbox.

Select all XX conversations in XXX'.Ĭlick the link in that message to select all messages in Gmail that match your search (if you've not searched this will apply to every single message in your current view).

Look carefully (see image below) and you'll see that a message appears that says 'All XX conversations on this page are selected. To do this, click the tickbox at the top of the page to select all emails on that page.

How to select allįirst, it's worth knowing how to select everything. The good news is that with these tricks you can quickly tidy up vast swathes of emails in one go. The latter methods are handy if you get lots of email newsletters and never delete them. Here we'll show you how to delete absolutely everything in Gmail and also how to delete all the emails from certain senders and with certain keywords. While the Gmail interface is generally very simple to use and understand, it makes it a bit of a nightmare to work on large numbers of emails at the same time, unless you know a couple of little tricks.

My gmail inbox mail