Q: How can I delete Sent Messages in email without doing each message separately? I have thousands sitting in there going back 4 years!

From the iPad there isn't. Does your provider have a web access? If so, and this is an IMAP account, you can likely do it from there.

Actually there is

Want to delete more than a single email message?  You can easily delete multiple email messages from the iPad by using the Mail's edit feature.  The button on the top right side of the inbox is the edit button.  Touching this button will put your inbox into edit mode.

Once your inbox is in edit mode, you can select multiple messages by touching each message you want to delete.  You then have the option to either delete them by pressing the delete button at the bottom of the screen or moving them to a specific folder by touching the move button.

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You are still touching the individual ones to delete. Where is the button that says " delete all" like on the trash and junk mail?

In the inbox, there isn't one.

It *can* be done with iOS 7.  http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/138612/how-can-i-delete-all-from-inbox- or-sent-mail-folder-in-ios

1. Go to your Sent folder
2. Tap on the "Edit"-Button on the top right
3. Select the first email in your list
4. Hold down the "Move" button
5. While you are still holding the "Move"-Button, deselect the first E-Mail
6. Put away all your fingers from the screen and wait a few seconds
7. Now Mail asks you where to move ALL of your emails
8. Select the Trash-Folder
9. Inside the Trahs-Folder, you can delete all items at once

Brilliant! Thanks! Works in iOS 8, too!

I have an iPad 4 with IOS 8.3 and it is unconscionable that Apple does not provide a simple "delete" function to delete "sent" email from the iPad.  None of those iffy work-arounds function.

Ken Lancaster

This does not work!

Ken Lancaster

What a nice feature/"easteregg".

Works like a charm!

Thanks for this.

Great answer. Real pain to select and delete each one. I am still trying to figure out why my Iphone is still showing 1300 sent messages when it is empty. I cannot sync with Outlook because iTunes says there is not enough capacity. I have 2.6GB of mail, but only 5 emails in my inbox. Trash is empty and as I said, I deleted all the sent in its folder, and still show the 1300. Any ideas?

You can delete all sent items when you select the account and go to the sent folder in each account. After you hit the edit button there will be the option 'delete all'.

Thank you from the bottom of my thousands of emails!

I have exactly the same problem.