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Friday, May 14th, 2021 7:16 PM

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How to delete all emails before a certain date, at once

Gmail lets me search for emails "older_than:3m" and then delete them all at once (not a page at a time). Does Xfinity?

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4 years ago

For general search information see https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/search-your-xfinity-connect-inbox.

To search by date range on a desktop or laptop, enter the range in the Search box like this (use a 4 digit year):

        1/1/2011-3/20/2019

Your entry and the words "as daterange" should appear on a line below. Click that line. If necessary, select the folder(s) to search. You may find that the search doesn't find emails in the Trash folder when you search All Folders. If so and you want to search Trash as well, you'll need to specify Trash instead of All Folders.

 

Check the search results to make sure they are as you expect, and then click the All dropdown, then "Select all messages", and finally click the trashcan icon.

I do not know if this works on phones and tablets.

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3 years ago

It only deletes the emails on the current page, not the entire selection of dates.

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@dhem

Depending on how many emails we are talking about, it might be easier  to create a new folder, then select the ones you want to keep and move them into that folder.  Then go back and right-click on the Inbox folder, and in the menu click on "Empty Inbox".

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