topic Re: 26000 emails. in Email

26000 emails.

Johnsy — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:33:12 GMT

I want to delete my emails except for the ones from this year. How do I do that?

ferguson — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:06:03 GMT

Create an appropriate rule in your settings.

Billx — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:35:47 GMT

If he using TalkTalk webmail, he'll have to mark each email he wants deleted.

He cannot create a rule and then run the rule manually.

If he using Thunderbird, or something similar,

he can create a rule and then run the rule manually

ferguson — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:42:41 GMT

Oh, I checked TalkTalk webmail and there are rules available?

Billx — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:45:52 GMT

Yes, you can create rules in TalkTalk webmail.

But they apply to incoming emails in the Inbox folder only, not already received emails.

Billx — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:07:28 GMT

If you are using TalkTalk webmail,

you can do the following, for each of the folders that you want to delete all the emails before the beginning of this year:

click the folder,

--> ensure the messages in that folder are in date order (either descending or ascending),

--> assuming they are the usual descending order, scroll down the list, until you see the first email before the beginning of this year,

--> mark that first email, by clicking on the little square on the left,

--> scroll down the list, until you see the last email,

--> mark that last email, by holding the shift button and clicking on the little square on the left,

--> this marks all emails you want to delete,

--> careful you haven't included any sub-folders that may contain emails from this year,

--> click the delete icon at the top (the garbage bin),

all done for this folder. continue with any other folders

nambuso-TT — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:50:24 GMT

Thank you very much for advising @ferguson and @Billx.