Jeena  

I have over one milion emails in my inbox in GMail, is there a way to delete them all without doing it 50 by 50 in the UI?

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Nikola Lakić :arch:  

@jeena
Enable IMAP and use Thunderbird or other email client to delete them all at once

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Jeena  

@nikolal I don't think Thunderbird will be able to hold over 15 GB of the emails in ram so I can select them on my 16 GB RAM laptop.

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Nikola Lakić :arch:  

@jeena
Well, yes. But you can delete more than 50 for sure

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Jeena  

@nikolal I guess I'm looking for a more automated way, I think I'll try my luck with the gmail API and a python script.

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Nikola Lakić :arch:  

@jeena
That might work, but I guess their API also limits you to some degree

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Jeena  

@nikolal I am running gist.github.com/jeena/6f510fdd now but it looks like it will need to run for a month straight

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Nikola Lakić :arch:
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@jeena
Lol, you can just make that gmail account to forward your emails to new email account, I recommend switching away from google. With that you have empty inbox and you can see all new incoming mail

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Jeena  

@nikolal I don't need the email account, I need the space for google drive

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