Good week: finally deleted 12,000 old emails in one sitting

Last Tuesday I had a slow afternoon at work and decided to tackle my inbox. I had 34,000 unread emails going back to 2016. After 3 hours of mass selecting and trashing newsletters I never opened, I got it down to 22,000. My computer felt faster and I found a $25 gift card code from 2019 that still worked. Anyone else find random money buried in their ancient inbox?

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troykim8d ago

Start organizing by sender domain first so you can nuke entire mailing lists at once. I filtered out all the "unsubscribe@company.com" types and wiped out about 8,000 emails in two minutes. That $25 find is a good reminder to search your inbox for words like "gift", "code", or "coupon" before you delete anything from 2019 or earlier.

lily5118d ago

Unsubscribe@company.com" isn't the sender domain, @troykim, that's just the reply-to address.