How do I completely delete ALL of my old iCloud e-mail and start from scratch? I have a huge number of old e-mails and don't want to have to spend days marking each one for deletion. Thanks!

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How do I completely delete ALL of my old iCloud e-mail and start from scratch? I have a huge number of old e-mails and don't want to have to spend days marking each one for deletion. Thanks!

Hello! How do I completely delete ALL my old MobileMe / iCloud e-mail? Is there a mass delete function somewhere? I have a huge amount of old e-mail and don't want to spend days (or maybe months) on my iPad marking and deleting each individual message. I also do not want to buy any more storage space. I actually called Apple support, and they could not answer this simple question. Sad - they are usually so good, too. The best suggestion they could come up was to sit on my iPad and manually delete each e-mail, one by one. Right. At that rate I might finish the job sometime in early 2014 if I make a hobby of deleting my old iCloud e-mail ;>)

I am betting that one of you has a much better solution than that! Thanks in advance for your help!!

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Posted on Aug 2, 2013 4:05 AM

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pvonk

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Aug 2, 2013 8:50 AM in response to Scrivener2

Can you imagine the problems users would be reporting here if there was a mass delete button in email?

I suggest using your computer to log into icloud.com, go to the Mail page and delete from there.

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Scrivener2 Author

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Aug 3, 2013 12:50 PM in response to pvonk

Thanks for the response. However, many other e-mail systems DO offer a form of "mass deletion". You simply highlight all the e-mails you want to delete (in one quick pass, often by hitting the "shift" button and then using the "down arrow" or "page down keys) and then do so. Unfortunately the iCloud mail function does not appear to have this type of basic functionality, even when you log in via your computer. I initially tried this approach, and then called the Apple help desk, only to be told that the iCloud system cannot do this. Thanks again for your response, though. I only wish your suggestion would have worked!

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randers4

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Aug 3, 2013 2:29 PM in response to Scrivener2

Actually, on icloud.com you can do that. The only problem you may run into is if you have a massive amount of email to delete you may have to delete them in batches as the server will sometimes freeze if you try to delete too many at once.

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