Jie Zhang’s Blog

How can I mark read or delete thounsands of mails in one shot in Gmail? January 10, 2006

Gmail’s label is much more power than topic folder in ordinary mail client. However, Gmail is lack of a feature useful for me and maybe others, which can be found in ordinary mail clients.

When using ordinary mail clients, it’s very easy to mark read all mails in one folder, or delete all of them. However, it’s hard to mark read all mails with one specific label or delete them. The quickest method I found is to do it one hundred mails in a batch. When mark read/delete about 10 thoundsands mails, it’s a big pain.

I have submitted a feature request to Gmail and see what will happen.