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
To vote for 'select all' from search results, vote here: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483/suggestions/46566259
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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Joe commented
duplicate. Please move your votes to: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-protonmail/suggestions/7840971-a-select-all-feature-similar-to-g-mail
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Charles Shipman commented
Empty Trash & Empty Spam - "Delete All" option visible on the ribbon of both folders, because you have no automatic deletion settings. Obscuring this feature has resulted in your customers losing thousands of work hours, first deleting Spam and then deleting Trash, at the default rate of only 50 junk messages at a time.
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Ramy Abdel-Azim commented
So it looks like there "is"* a way to do this in the UI. If you select a label and click the 3-dots in the top right of the screen, you can choose "Delete All" (make sure nothing is selected). This will give you a popup that says "Are you sure you want to Permantly Delete all emails under this label? But if you click "Ok" it just deletes...well I'm not sure how many it deletes but it's more than a page I think.
*depending on your definition of IS is...
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Anthony commented
Please add this.
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Gene commented
I agree with others. If I go into my INBOX and filter on say....newegg. I should be able to select ALL 700 Newegg emails and delete all of them. Having to delete 50, then go to my trash and delete them out of there and keep repeating this process 50 at a time is tedious and silly.
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Mark Scholfield commented
The only way to delete bulk emails is to use the Bridge and utilise a 3rd party mail client llike Thunderbird to then delete there. The 50 emails a page limit is just utter madness, and seems like a crazy oversight by Protonmail, and why I stopped paying for premium and went back to free. A real shame.
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tience commented
Good Lord. Email 101. Select all. I paid for this?
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ron commented
Ok, just find the feature under the "three dot" menu on the upper right hand corner. Clicking on it reveals one single item named "Delete". Why hide this command like this? Nobody can find it easily. I actually did a search at proton help page and didn't find any answers. This feature should really be a button right next to the trash folder icon in the left hand vertical navigation column
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ron commented
This is quite a glaring missing feature that's so readily available with other, free, webmail services. If not a button to click to empty the trash folder, at least give us the ability to manually select all, and delete using the menu. But even that doesn't seem to be possible. So there seems to be no choice but leave these folders accumulating contents, or am I missing something real obvious?
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Sm commented
This would be a great feature to add.
After you do a search and click the "v" (down arrow) next to the checkbox in the heading, the triple check says "select all", this should select all emails that were the result of the search
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m4f1j0z0 commented
It's ridiculous that we even have to request this feature.
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Maynard commented
Selecting the entire contents of an inbox including all messages not currently displayed is an important feature for anyone trying to manage large amounts of email.
A lot of people end up like me: finding themselves frustrated because they have to ignore the amount of unread messages on all their folders but still find themselves distracted by the unread notification.
Competing email services have had this feature for many years before this suggestion was made in 2017.
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anonymous commented
How is this not implemented? It seems like a basic function for any email service.
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Anonymous commented
for an organisation that values Privacy and Security - making it hard to remove email seems very poor (and dangerous practice)
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jay commented
Please add this feature!!! This the only feature you guys should work on until its added!
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RF commented
This was marked as completed, but I still can't do it in mine?
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Steve commented
I posted essentially the same request today, 8/6/21. Up vote this one since it already has votes.
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Anonymous commented
Should be able to delete all results from any search screen. Seems easy enough to implement.
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snide-uncloak-object commented
To delete all inbox data Technically as a hack, you can
1. Sign out
2. "Forgot Password."
3. Get the code from your backup email
4. Use the code
5. Nuke all data.This isn't really great, but it seems like an odd enough workaround if you really want to delete a ton of emails at once, since Protonmail doesn't seem to allow it another way easily.
So far, I've found simple features like deleting massive amounts of email from my inbox and only being able to view 50 emails at a time is extremely unimpressive and seems like there is a lack of understanding with problems people have with email...
But who knows, maybe it is a plan to always have your inbox so crammed full that you will eventually need to upgrade to a higher data tier eventually.
If we could all keep our Inboxes managed and easily delete junk we don't need, there would be less of a reason to upgrade.It makes me trust them just a little less, though.
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edding 300 commented
Yes, and I agree!
Me too!
Upvote this!
Definitely!