How To Purge Your WA Email Inbox - How The Heck Did I Miss This?!
Hello. My name is Sean, and I am an idiot.
Dedication: This blog goes out to all those folks like me, who may be a little 'slow to understand'.
I detest a congested email inbox so, periodically, I have been going into my WA mail and manually deleting one email at a time, which entailed opening each mail, deleting it and moving on to the next.
One. Frikkin'. Mail. At. A. Time.
Today I had two-hundred-and-something emails waiting for me in my Atmail email inbox - ALL of it unwanted. What better way to spend an entire Saturday afternoon, than by mindlessly clicking the 'delete' button hundreds of times, right?
After manually deleting about 50 something mails I thought, 'There must be some way I can just delete all of these suckers in one go? I mean, this is worse than Chinese water torture!'
Well, there IS a way ... I had just missed it, until today.
Today, I had a brief epiphany, during which the 'Folders' tab was revealed to me. This was the answer to my email woes ...
First, log into your WA email:
I had already manually deleted a whole bunch of emails at this point :(. Click on the 'Folders' tab on the top. This will open up the following:
Next, click on the red 'X' at the end of the inbox row. This is the 'purge your inbox' tab. It will do for your inbox what drinking a litre of prune juice would do for your bowels.
Don't be afraid - Click it. This message will then pop up:
Click the OK button with glee - Et voila! A purged inbox! Zero hundred emails left! Total time spent - 30 seconds.
I'm sure there's bound to be somebody out there who will benefit from this.
Your friend in email inbox cleansing,
Sean
Recent Comments
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Thank you so much! After taking a year break I came back to well a ton of email and could not find a way to purge it all. Such a simple answer too... lol.
Attached a picture just to show how thankful I am...
Yeah it was a bit much... Plus factor in I had to scan for emails that were actually good and not just spam. This way they are all gone and I can spam the bad stuff as it comes in again. Big thanks!
Wow! That must be some kind of record man :). Anyway, glad I could help.
All the best,
Sean
Only a pleasure!