devonwoody
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I seldom use my ipad for emails and I see it now has over 30,000 emails, I only seem to be able to trash them one at a time, how do I select all, and then trash the lot please?
need help desparately for my ipad
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NickWelford
So many tools, so little to show
In mail app, go to mailboxes, account, trash, edit, delete all
devonwoody
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Thanks Nick for your very prompt reply, have not yet succeeded, perhaps 30107 mails is going to take some time, and I have got to be patient.
NikNak
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. 30,000........ :shock: :shock: :shock:
i'm assuming these are mostly junk, spam or phishing emails.....?
or a very l - o - n - g thread..... :lol:
if they're just in your 'inbox' waiting to be read, i'm not sure you can delete them all at once. If they're already in your 'trash' folder then NickWelford advice is correct
Nick
i'm assuming these are mostly junk, spam or phishing emails.....?
or a very l - o - n - g thread..... :lol:
if they're just in your 'inbox' waiting to be read, i'm not sure you can delete them all at once. If they're already in your 'trash' folder then NickWelford advice is correct
Nick
SurreyHills
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If there in your Inbox you usually delete them individually. However you can select the edit function and that allows you to select a group and then delete the group only slightly quicker than one by one.
If you have accumulated that many emails you need to look at what options your ISP offers for Spam filtering. If you can turn it on at the mail server you should see a dramatic reduction.
Cheers
Andy
If you have accumulated that many emails you need to look at what options your ISP offers for Spam filtering. If you can turn it on at the mail server you should see a dramatic reduction.
Cheers
Andy
devonwoody
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I don't know how they got there, the man at Curry's set up my ipad and some how it picked up all my emails from a particular account which is now seldom used and were never read on my ipad but notifications were always followed up from my pc.
Ipad picked up all of them even prior postings .
And tho I have followed nicks advice it will not delete unless I do them individually.
Ipad says 30144 unread. But most would have been cleared up on the PC
Ipad picked up all of them even prior postings .
And tho I have followed nicks advice it will not delete unless I do them individually.
Ipad says 30144 unread. But most would have been cleared up on the PC
devonwoody
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Perhaps if I speak nicely to my server, virginmedia they could delete all mails into a certain email address?
They have deleted a seized up large mail photograph in the past.
They have deleted a seized up large mail photograph in the past.
Baldhead
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DW if the chap in Currys simply set up the email account in your iPad and it's not linked to your main computer thenI think this may work.
Go into 'settings' scroll down to 'Mail, Contacts, Calenders' then on the right hand side you should see the email account that has the 30,000+ emails, click on that account and the next display should allow you to delete it from your iPad.
Hope that helps.
Baldhead
Go into 'settings' scroll down to 'Mail, Contacts, Calenders' then on the right hand side you should see the email account that has the 30,000+ emails, click on that account and the next display should allow you to delete it from your iPad.
Hope that helps.
Baldhead
devonwoody
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Baldhead":2bjkould said:
Thanks Baldhead, I finally did that, I knew it was there all the time and I suspected it would delete that email address from my ipad which it has done. Now of course no emails of anykind will appear on the ipad for my blueyonder server address.
If I now create a new blueyonder account using all previous set up will I get the lot back, not that I want them.
The only reason for perhaps recreating the account some forums etc. only know me with the blueyonder url.
But thanks for your solution anyway.
devonwoody
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BTW. I have the blueyonder email account still available on my PC and that has 1300 mails, which I have forgotten how to delete enbloc but on this occasion I do not want to close the account because it should pick up old friends who might want to mail me from way back.
Help appreciated on that one too.
Help appreciated on that one too.
CHJ
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John, re entering your account should only retrieve new mails. (those that have not been retrieved on the computer and deleted)
Standard setup is that your main computer is the only one that is setup to delete/remove the mails from the server out box.
Ancillary devices like Tablets and Phones are normally setup as collecting copies from the server, for on the move information, not deleting them from the server on receipt.
This is so that mails received on multiple devices are not lost and are still available back at base so to speak (the PC)
If you leave your tablet or Phone switched on for long periods it will keep on collecting any new mails it finds in the server outbox that have not been removed by the PC account.
Standard setup is that your main computer is the only one that is setup to delete/remove the mails from the server out box.
Ancillary devices like Tablets and Phones are normally setup as collecting copies from the server, for on the move information, not deleting them from the server on receipt.
This is so that mails received on multiple devices are not lost and are still available back at base so to speak (the PC)
If you leave your tablet or Phone switched on for long periods it will keep on collecting any new mails it finds in the server outbox that have not been removed by the PC account.
SurreyHills
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Check what your settings are on the ipad for what emails to retrieve. I think the default is the last 50 but you can change this.
Remember your ipad is retrieving emails from your mail server (Blueyonder) not your PC. Therefore you should look at accessing your email folders directly from your PC first (most ISPs have some form of webmail capability and this is what you should use) and tidy up the email folder - this way you can delete everything you don't want first before getting the ipadto sync with that account.
Remember your ipad is retrieving emails from your mail server (Blueyonder) not your PC. Therefore you should look at accessing your email folders directly from your PC first (most ISPs have some form of webmail capability and this is what you should use) and tidy up the email folder - this way you can delete everything you don't want first before getting the ipadto sync with that account.
Alexam
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devonwoody":yjpknm5q said:
This is a very helpful site http://www.ipadforums.net/forums/ipad-4-forum.151/
Alex
DiscoStu
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What Surrey Hills said!
The iPad is only showing what's in your account. You've removed the account from your iPad but the emails are still in the account. Do you have 30,000 in your inbox on your PC? I suspect you do. You should be able to delete them on the PC and they would then delete in your account and then on your iPad when it syncs.
You can also set your iPad to only down load the last x days of emails.
I'd suggest that a lot of these emails are spam / rubbish and you should consider looking at the spam filtering offered by your ISP.
We use a mail filtering system at work and I recently logged in and we filter out about 70% of the email that is sent to us. That is a huge amount of spam. I don't want it on our systems as it wastes space and is also likely to cobra only links to malware and viruses etc.
The iPad is only showing what's in your account. You've removed the account from your iPad but the emails are still in the account. Do you have 30,000 in your inbox on your PC? I suspect you do. You should be able to delete them on the PC and they would then delete in your account and then on your iPad when it syncs.
You can also set your iPad to only down load the last x days of emails.
I'd suggest that a lot of these emails are spam / rubbish and you should consider looking at the spam filtering offered by your ISP.
We use a mail filtering system at work and I recently logged in and we filter out about 70% of the email that is sent to us. That is a huge amount of spam. I don't want it on our systems as it wastes space and is also likely to cobra only links to malware and viruses etc.
devonwoody
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Thanks disco, I only have around 1800 mails on my main email pc account and I am looking now how to delete them en bloc.
To be honest I have forgotten how to do that (don't tell my doc. he's rich enough), so if you would be good enough to reply with that answer I would be very happy.
To be honest I have forgotten how to do that (don't tell my doc. he's rich enough), so if you would be good enough to reply with that answer I would be very happy.
DiscoStu
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Depends on the email client you're using. If it's outlook then you can select all and delete. It will take it a little while of egg timering whilst it selects all.
devonwoody
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I use windows live mail
Can you still help please?
Can you still help please?
