Jie Zhang’s Blog

A workaround for “deleting” thousands of emails in Gmail January 20, 2006

Since all the labelled emails in my Gmail have been archived, deleting the label will have almost same effect of deleting all the emails only have this label. “Almost” means them are actually deleted and you can still find them in “All Mail”. But this is just what I want.

Mark read all emails with a specific label can be achieved by first remove the label, then add it again. The label will be removed from all the emails previously marked with the label. After add it again, only new coming emails will be labelled. This is also what I want. I just want to have a clean start, so I can easily notice new emails.