Batch deleting mail from an account

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Batch deleting mail from an account

I'm frustrated when I get a few days of mail from my account on my iPhone and I have to mark each individual piece of e-mail one by one to set them up for deletion. Am I missing something? Is there a way to click on "Edit" in mail and then tell your phone you want to mark every e-mail for deletion? If I could do that, and then simply uncheck the few that I might want to keep around, it would be wonderful. This is such a simple thing that I would think the Mail program on the phone would have this feature. Perhaps I'm just missing how to do it.

There is a way to mark all your e-mails, but that's to flag them, not delete them.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Jeff Brody

Silverdale, WA

Aperture 3, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), iMac (2.4 core 2 duo/iphone 4s

Posted on Feb 22, 2014 4:24 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 22, 2014 4:28 PM in response to SilverdaleJB

No; there's no way to delete all email. I would like it also, but my guess is that Apple is afraid that they will get complaints about how easy it is to accidently delete all email. There is a workaround - Delete the account, reboot, add it back. Not exactly user-friendly.

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SilverdaleJB Author

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Feb 22, 2014 4:32 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

It wouldn't be easy to delete by accident if you had to affirm your choice through a dialog box. That just seems like something that should be part of the software.

Is there any way to request that something like this be added to the software? Is there a place in the support community where we can request such features?

Jeff

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Answer 3

Feb 22, 2014 4:38 PM in response to SilverdaleJB

http://apple.com/feedback

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Answer 4

Feb 28, 2015 2:37 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

Lawrence, I have tried to delete my account, but I get the message that deleting it will also delete the Contacts, Calendars, and Notes, and I do not want to do this. And I don't want to risk it. Will they really be deleted? And if so, how difficult is it to restore all of these? Or is there a way to delete one Mailbox at a time?

Thanks for any help you can give.

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