- You can delete all your emails in yahoo mail by using the “select all” tool repeatedly.
- The “select all” tool only selects the messages displayed on the screen, so you may need to use it more than once.
- Alternatively, the “clean your inbox” tool works more efficiently and keeps messages in a file in case you need them again.
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If you’ve had a yahoo email account for a while, you may have a huge amount of email in your inbox. Fortunately, in the name of cleanliness, Yahoo gives you some tools to delete all your messages at once.
You have two options to clean your inbox: you can delete all your emails directly, which has some drawbacks, or you can archive your messages. archiving emails removes them from your inbox, but keeps them in case you need to access them again in the future.
how to delete all your email in yahoo mail
You can permanently delete all your messages, but the downside is exactly that. if you ever need to reference a message in the future, it is gone and cannot be retrieved. furthermore, this function is very time consuming as it does not always allow you to actually select all the messages at once.
1. open yahoo mail in a web browser.
2. Click the checkbox at the top of the browser, above the inbox. if you see the dropdown menu, click “all”. otherwise it should automatically select everything. Note that this only selects the messages that are displayed on your screen.
3. To select more messages, scroll down to view all messages in the inbox.
4. Click the checkbox arrow again to click “all”. you should now see that all messages are selected.
5. Click “delete” and confirm that this is what you want to do.
6. If that still doesn’t delete all the messages in your inbox, repeat the process until all are deleted.
how to archive all your email in yahoo mail
If you want to clean up your inbox but don’t necessarily need to delete them permanently, archive your messages instead. yahoo provides a one-click tool to do this, which is generally more efficient than deleting, since you don’t need to scroll, select, and delete more than once.
1. open yahoo mail in a web browser.
2. Hover over “inbox” in the left navigation pane and click the dropdown arrow.
3. choose “clean your inbox”.
4. In the pop-up window, click “archive emails”. Depending on how many messages you have, this may take a while, but when it’s done, your inbox will be empty and all email will be moved to the archive folder.
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