Outlook: Too many emails lol

[jonoo]

I have too many emails. Yes that's right sixty seven thousand unread emails.

I'm using outlook.com in chrome and i have tried clearing out old daily newsletters and such but the problem is when I search it will only cache 75 emails at a time so if i select all to delete them I'm obviously missing a lot.

Any suggestions?

And yes i have a gmail for normal emails

 

[ThousandBlade]

When you're receiving that much junk mail, it's time for a new email address.

I know it's hard to abandon your email that you've had for how ever many years.

But at this point there's no saving it, too many spammers and scammers has already gotten your email address.

People say you can unsubscribe newsletters. but that's only for the ones that feel like following the rules.

[mariushm]

see if there's any rules  you can configure like  any email that contains keywords pharmacy and/or cvs in title or contents should be moved to trash ... or any email coming from a domain move to trash .... then run that rule on your inbox contents and empty trash.

[Eigenvektor]

Instead of deleting junk mail manually, you should mark it as junk. That way the spam filter should learn spam from ham and start moving it on its own.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

28 minutes ago, mariushm said:

see if there's any rules  you can configure like  any email that contains keywords pharmacy and/or cvs in title or contents should be moved to trash ... or any email coming from a domain move to trash .... then run that rule on your inbox contents and empty trash.

I use these all the time for work. Not for advertisement spam, but for pointless automatic email notifications from work applications that cannot be turned off. 

[Robchil]

archive to local file with rules. 

like.. anything older than so and so.. move to local file.. 

or anything larger than so and so.. move to local file. 

 

[jonoo]

6 hours ago, ThousandBlade said:

When you're receiving that much junk mail, it's time for a new email address.

I know it's hard to abandon your email that you've had for how ever many years.

But at this point there's no saving it, too many spammers and scammers has already gotten your email address.

People say you can unsubscribe newsletters. but that's only for the ones that feel like following the rules.

Its not so much junk mail its more that I basically haven't had a need to delete an email in the last 20+ years because of ever expanding storage

 

5 hours ago, mariushm said:

see if there's any rules  you can configure like  any email that contains keywords pharmacy and/or cvs in title or contents should be moved to trash ... or any email coming from a domain move to trash .... then run that rule on your inbox contents and empty trash.

Thanks for the suggestion, i always thought of rules as sorting incoming.

Most of the emails like you see in the image are spam filtered and cleared after 30 days. The emails i have issues with are from companies where I've bought something or plan to buy something who have a need to send me multiple page emails daily telling me about their "sales".

I tried adding a rule to one such company's emails and it failed miserably. I asked it to move all emails, from before last week, from that email address, to my deleted mailbox. And instead it just deleted 10,000 random emails.

 

4 hours ago, Robchil said:

archive to local file with rules. 

like.. anything older than so and so.. move to local file.. 

or anything larger than so and so.. move to local file. 

 

There no archive rules that I can see but that was a good idea

 

[Robchil]

2 minutes ago, jonoo said:

Its not so much junk mail its more that I basically haven't had a need to delete an email in the last 20+ years because of ever expanding storage

 

Thanks for the suggestion, i always thought of rules as sorting incoming.

Most of the emails like you see in the image are spam filtered and cleared after 30 days. The emails i have issues with are from companies where I've bought something or plan to buy something who have a need to send me multiple page emails daily telling me about their "sales".

I tried adding a rule to one such company's emails and it failed miserably. I asked it to move all emails, from before last week, from that email address, to my deleted mailbox. And instead it just deleted 10,000 random emails.

 

There no archive rules that I can see but that was a good idea

 

i think the "spam" database on outlook is local.. so you will have to add adresses, you can add standard words, etc. to clear out trash you don't need. 

you can move that to your "spam" file so you have them, but not mixed with everything else. 

generaly when creating rules, you can execute them and they will start cleaning your mailbox in line with set rules. and move stuff.. and it will move everything up to now. it will take some time tho. since your imap google folder is online in a cloud and your local file are local.  atleast it won't limit to 75 mails each move.. 

 

 

[jonoo]

18 hours ago, Robchil said:

generaly when creating rules, you can execute them and they will start cleaning your mailbox in line with set rules.

Sorry for the confusion, that's what i did.

I found an email from one of the companies that sends way too many and created a rule to put all their emails in the trash. And then I ran it on my inbox.

Instead it just trashed over 10,000 random emails.

 

Is there an email program I can just download all my emails to delete what i need using a half decent search and/or filter and then resync with my online email client?

 

[Robchil]

2 hours ago, jonoo said:

Sorry for the confusion, that's what i did.

I found an email from one of the companies that sends way too many and created a rule to put all their emails in the trash. And then I ran it on my inbox.

Instead it just trashed over 10,000 random emails.

 

Is there an email program I can just download all my emails to delete what i need using a half decent search and/or filter and then resync with my online email client?

 

outlook rules isn't good enough? 

you know.. if a company have a good antispam engine protecting it.. 95 to 99% of all emails are trashed..  so that it cleaned out 10000 out of 64k ..is funny.. shows how much junk mail that sender realy sent  ... it's not trashing 10k mails.. it's all junk mail

 

the reports i got from our ironport servers deleted 500k mails pr day..  

 

[jonoo]

2 hours ago, Robchil said:

outlook rules isn't good enough? 

you know.. if a company have a good antispam engine protecting it.. 95 to 99% of all emails are trashed..  so that it cleaned out 10000 out of 64k ..is funny.. shows how much junk mail that sender realy sent  ... it's not trashing 10k mails.. it's all junk mail

 

the reports i got from our ironport servers deleted 500k mails pr day..  

 

no no no.

Nothing to do with the spam filter.

 

I made a custom rule that sent everything by @homewarescompany email address to the deleted mailbox.

I then made it run on my inbox.

And it ignored the first part and just deleted 10,000 random emails most of which, on first look, weren't from that sender.

 

The rule didn't work it just had a fit and deleted a bunch of random emails.

 

Its like when you search for something in your emails and it finds a bunch of unrelated things,  its the same thing with making mail rules.

[Robchil]

12 minutes ago, jonoo said:

no no no.

Nothing to do with the spam filter.

 

I made a custom rule that sent everything by @homewarescompany email address to the deleted mailbox.

I then made it run on my inbox.

And it ignored the first part and just deleted 10,000 random emails most of which, on first look, weren't from that sender.

 

The rule didn't work it just had a fit and deleted a bunch of random emails.

 

Its like when you search for something in your emails and it finds a bunch of unrelated things,  its the same thing with making mail rules.

ah ok.. ouch sounds fubar.. 

if you set the rules up properly.. they usually work.. good thing it don't delete your trashcan unless you set it to do it.  it takes a bit trying and failing sometimes. 

 

[jonoo]

Anyone else got any ideas?

[Robchil]

6 hours ago, jonoo said:

Anyone else got any ideas?

the main idea was to move the mail's to a local file with rules.. 

it's easier to work on them localy than wait for internet delay on the imap connection. 

 

[jonoo]

On 10/4/2023 at 7:46 PM, Robchil said:

the main idea was to move the mail's to a local file with rules.. 

it's easier to work on them localy than wait for internet delay on the imap connection. 

 

Ahh sorry I misunderstood.

Its been years since I used a standalone email program can you recommend one that's free and easy to work with?

[Robchil]

7 minutes ago, jonoo said:

Ahh sorry I misunderstood.

Its been years since I used a standalone email program can you recommend one that's free and easy to work with?

uhm.. i'm using outlook  since i have an office.com subscription.  use your microsoft account if you want to open one. ... not sure but i think outlook should be free.. 

 

maybe this article can help you .. https://uk.pcmag.com/productivity/147239/the-best-email-clients-for-2023

 

looks like thunderbird is a good option.. 

 

 

 

[jonoo]

On 10/6/2023 at 1:26 AM, Robchil said:

uhm.. i'm using outlook  since i have an office.com subscription.  use your microsoft account if you want to open one. ... not sure but i think outlook should be free.. 

 

maybe this article can help you .. https://uk.pcmag.com/productivity/147239/the-best-email-clients-for-2023

 

looks like thunderbird is a good option.. 

 

 

 

Thanks thunderbird worked a treat.

Although it did stumble a little trying to delete 2500+ emails all at once lol