OT: Forwarding/deleting multiple Yahoo emails

[retired711]

A friend has thousands of unread emails in her Yahoo! email account. How would she go about clearing her inbox? My thought is that she should forward the emails she wants to keep to my Yahoo! email account, and then delete what's in her inbox. I would then forward back to her account the ones she sent me, and delete what she sent.

Is there an easy way to forward multiple emails? If it helps, all of the ones she would keep have the same sender.

Once she's done that, is there an easy way to delete multiple e-mails without having to individually select each one?

Is there any better way to keep only the emails she wants and to delete the rest?

Thanks!

 

[fg7321]

Create a folder with the sender's Name. Sort the inbox by the senders name. Use the Select all link at the top and then the Actions box at the top and move the selected emails to the new folder yo have created.

Then use the select all box again and delete the other emails

 

[Roy_Faulker]

If emails are mostly junk mail you can always search using the term “unsubscribe” that should get most of them and she can pick what to delete.

Deleting is too many steps so most just let it pile up.

 

[29PAS]

If there's a "Select all" and delete option, she could do that, then unselect the one's she doesn't want to delete, then delete the remaining. Would be very tedious if she has a lot of them, however.

 

[e5fdny]

So much easier on the desktop vs the phone.

 

[retired711]

So much easier on the desktop vs the phone.

Completely agree. My friend tends to read her e-mail on the phone, but I will encourage her to use a laptop.