Select all emails and perform bulk actions
It’s taking me 30 mins a day to delete 100-200 emails this is time consuming and damn right idiotic that the feature isn’t here already
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Hey everyone,
Cleaning up your inbox just got easier – you can now label, move, delete, or mark as read all emails in a folder (including your main Inbox) at once on the Proton Mail web app.
To get started, select all messages on a page. You'll see the option to select all messages in the location (e.g. Inbox) you're in. Then, simply apply actions in bulk, making it easier to manage your inbox.
Thank you for your feedback!
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Anonymous commented
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.
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Anonymous commented
Need to be able to delete all the emails in Trash in one pass without the 50 email limitation.
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Anonymous commented
Restore bulk delete function to Android app. It's gone in version 1.12.3 (684).
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Anonymous commented
@Jonas - thanks for posting that.. very helpful!
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proton.manny commented
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.
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Anonymous commented
This sucks!
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Jonas commented
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);
}
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PBon commented
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.
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Anonymous commented
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.
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Tom commented
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.
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Leonard Abbey commented
DELETING 50 MESSAGES AT A TIME IS A PAIN IN THE BUTT. NEED TO BE ABLE TO DELETE ALL WITH 1 CLICK.
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Leonard Abbey commented
MY GMAIL ACCOUNT LET'S YOU DELETE ALL MESSAGES WITH 1 CLICK
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Anonymous commented
Please introduce a feature giving the ability to delete bulk emails
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MzDeirdre commented
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.
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Anonymous commented
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.
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Wolf commented
Especially when (beta-) testing ProtonMail it would be a great help to have an option to delete more than 50 emails in a row.
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Phoenix commented
Firstly I love ProtonMail. But I totally agree with others here. The inability to mass delete emails only leads to the unnecessary accumulation of junk emails and reaching storage limits far sooner than is necessary. None of this benefits the user. It does benefit ProtonMail. Please add this feature asap.
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Maverick commented
I would also love to have this feature!
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Peter Bear commented
Already exists : go to trash, click more, then empty trash.
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Anonymous commented
dude, Ivan, this request is not unusual and is sorely missed. most other ESP's have this. Can you please include it? Would be nice for a paid service to have feature parity with free ones, no?