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Why no Select All in email?

With no spam filter and a very shaky mail program the least Apple could have done was provided a select all option in the mail preview pane to assist in deleting spam -- which is about 90% of what I get in iPad2. Mail always hangs for me as well.

MacPro 8 core 2.8Ghz 8gb Ram, Mac OS X (10.6.7), FCS3

Posted on Mar 21, 2011 10:07 PM

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Mar 22, 2011 7:45 AM in response to igmackenzie

My main issue is with Apple. Why did they wimp out with the Mail program for iPad? Why did they not provide all of the features of Mail? Clearly it is not a coding or a computing issue. The iPad is fast enough to edit video and record live music - surely it can handle all of what the full Mail app can throw at it. There is no conceivable reason to give us half a program to use. not ONE.

Mar 22, 2011 7:59 AM in response to Spakuloid

I have personal business emails that have been functional for several years now so I am not changing them to gmail - which is just annoying and confusing to clients/people. I have gmail as well but I never use it. My main issue is with Apple. I would really like a SELECT ALL button for the mail preview so I can mass delete all of the junk in my inboxes without having to hit EDIT- and select each of them one at a time. Then they can give us the rest of the Mail program that we are missing.

Mar 22, 2011 11:13 AM in response to Spakuloid

Spakuloid wrote:
My main issue is with Apple. I would really like a SELECT ALL button for the mail preview so I can mass delete all of the junk in my inboxes without having to hit EDIT- and select each of them one at a time. Then they can give us the rest of the Mail program that we are missing.

That makes no sense to me. You have to select which ones are junk in the first place! If you had a 'select all' button, you'd still have to go through them all to deselect which ones weren't junk.

Mar 22, 2011 12:08 PM in response to igmackenzie

1. on iPad - you receive 100 emails of which 89 are SPAM

2. you wait for them to all load in your preview mailbox pane

3. you keep waiting some more

4. you make a cup of coffee

5. you get back and they have all loaded - at last

6. you hit the EDIT button on top right of MAILBOXES

7. you now would hit *select all*

8. you can now DESELECT the 11 emails you want to actually read

9. delete the rest

Got it?

Mar 22, 2011 1:55 PM in response to Spakuloid

The real issue here is that there is no "select all" option within edit. It isn't important whether someone gets 5 spam emails or 5000, the problem is there is no select all functionality. Yes, I realize that I need to go elsewhere to suggest product enhancements...

I actually was wondering about this this morning when I went through my email...I guess I should have figured out by now that there is currently no "select all" feature...

Mar 22, 2011 2:04 PM in response to Bonesaw1962

89% junk mail aside, I am struggling to see why having this function would be in any way useful. I mean do you guys delete all your emails all the time? Don't you keep emails at all for reference? Do you really not need to keep some emails until they are dealt with?
Why anyone would want to delete all their emails regularly is completely beyond me.

Why no Select All in email?

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