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Can I empty my inbox without having to do so in blocks of 50 at a time?

Thistle1 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:39:59 GMT

Re: Can I empty my inbox without having to do so in blocks of 50 at a time?

gg30340 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:29:49 GMT

The following may work.

If you hold down the shift key then tick the box to the left of the first email you want to delete in the list of emails then scroll down using the scroll bar on the right hand side or use the PgDown key and tick the last email you want to delete then release the shift key.

It will select all the emails in between.

You can then click delete or drag and drop them into the Trash folder.

Re: Can I empty my inbox without having to do so in blocks of 50 at a time?

Thistle1 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:20:26 GMT

Thanks for your advice and I will try this.

Re: Can I empty my inbox without having to do so in blocks of 50 at a time?

Thistle1 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:37:51 GMT

Ive tried this now and unfortunately it does not work.

Re: Can I empty my inbox without having to do so in blocks of 50 at a time?

gg30340 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:54:27 GMT

In case you were trying to delete too many at the one time try it with batches of less than 200.

The other way to do it is to install an email client such as Thunderbird and set it up as an IMAP account and it will allow you to delete more than 50 at a time. It synchs with the BT servers so will delete them in webmail.

Re: Can I empty my inbox without having to do so in blocks of 50 at a time?

Thistle1 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:02:32 GMT

Thank you again. I will give it a go.