Click on the "trash" folder. Look for the hamburger menu on the right almost under the word settings (on my computer) it is called "advanced options" when you click on that it will give you the option to "empty trash" click that and it will empty all the trash.

It would be great to have a tool that will mass delete emails or mass add labels. Right now you can only add a filter to new emails coming in and it doesn't add said label to previous emails.

Requesting this as well please

PLEASE ADD SELECT ALL BUTTON IN THE MOBILE APP!! Thank you!

I get it with the restrictions on 50 msg per page and tedious deletion. Here is how I did it, very easily and quickly: Click the inbox message box to select them all. HOT KEY *t *t will send them to trash. Once you get a rhythm, you can delete hundreds a day in a couple minutes, till you get tired of it. Then you can delete everything in TRASH at once.

Need to be able to delete all the emails in Trash in one pass without the 50 email limitation.

Restore bulk delete function to Android app. It's gone in version 1.12.3 (684).

@Jonas - thanks for posting that.. very helpful!

The ability to delete ALL messages in a folder would obviously be less time consuming than deleting 50 at a time, and should be standard for Protonmail as with other email programs. Please implement this feature.

This sucks!

I ran a JS script to automate the clicking of buttons -> select all -> trash -> next page ...

I injected the code into the developer console of my Chrome browser. Will only work with the desktop version of the site. (Mobile has a different button layout).

To make it run you might want remove line breaks.

{
let pageCount = 100;
for (let i = 0; i < pageCount; i++) {

setTimeout(function(){
document.querySelector("#pm_main > nav > div.toolBar-select-all.elements-selector > a > i").click();
setTimeout(function(){
document.querySelector("#pm_main > nav > div.toolBar-select-all.elements-selector > span > button:nth-child(1) > i").click();
setTimeout(function(){
document.querySelector("#pm_main > nav > div.pm_buttons.moveElement-container > button.pm_buttons-child.fa.fa-trash-o.toolbar-btn-trash.moveElement-btn-trash").click();
setTimeout(function(){
document.querySelector("#pm_main > nav > div.pull-right.action.toolbarDesktop-actions-right > span > a.paginator-btn-next > i").click();
}, 1000);
}, 400);
}, 400);
}, 4000 * i);
}
}

I also had this issue but just realized there's a difference between the trash icon and the delete X icon. I clicked 'all' for each 50 and deleted loads of spam and trash emails in a few minutes. I used to hit the trash icon, but found that this never cleared it.

I agree. Absolutely idiotic that I cannot delete bulk emails by clicking a box. Having to delete them individually takes way too much time. If protonmail wants me to pay for protonmail plus they need to improve the product.

This is close to a deal breaker for me. I have been using protonamil as my primary email, but I get a lot of junk. I don't want to spend an hour marking all messages to mark as read. I may find another provider .

I like how in gmail you can mark every single message in your mailbox without having to select it.

DELETING 50 MESSAGES AT A TIME IS A PAIN IN THE BUTT. NEED TO BE ABLE TO DELETE ALL WITH 1 CLICK.

MY GMAIL ACCOUNT LET'S YOU DELETE ALL MESSAGES WITH 1 CLICK

Please introduce a feature giving the ability to delete bulk emails

thank you for you comment Anonymous, it worked THANKFULLY. I really like pm mail. I'm just waiting to be able to go to the next message after I delete one.

You already have an "empty drafts" folder function, and also an "empty trash" folder function.

I want the same function for "empty send folder", and "empty inbox".

It's too slow to only be allowed to delete 50 messages at a time.

Especially when (beta-) testing ProtonMail it would be a great help to have an option to delete more than 50 emails in a row.