Gmail Mass Delete - I can search for them easily because they all have a subject [mailinglist]. I want to just automatically delete every message with that in the subject without having to download 2+gigs of e-mails through pop, delete all of them, and then forward the rest back to gmail. And no, deleting 100 messages at a time is no the answer (can only delete all at a max of 100 per page). These are messages that I've read, going back over a year, and I'm at 96%. I just want to dump all of the old messages at once to clear up space. posted by empath

-Why isn't deleting 100 messages at once the answer? Once you do a search for them, it only takes a second and a half to check the select all box and then trash. The next 100 will pop up automatically, and repeat. Doing it this way will only take you a couple minutes at most. posted by Meredith
--10,000/100 = 1000 pages. Let's say it takes me 3 seconds to delete a page of messages, that's going to be like an hour of deleting threads. And I really have more than 10,000 threads I'd like to delete. posted by empath
--- No, it's equal to 100 pages. posted by Kickstart70

- As far as I know, there is no way to natively mass-delete mail in gmail. posted by charmston
- The consensus on the Gmail group is that this is not something that is currently possible. I'd be interested to see if anyone has a workaround. posted by jessamyn
- No GreaseMonkey script for this yet, and no programming volunteers? That's very un-Metafilterish. GM scriptage was the first extension to add a separate delete button for Gmail, back before Google added the button themselves. Seems like mass delete support is well within GM's capabilities. I'd try it myself, but I never hopped on the Gmail train for an account. posted by mdevore

I'm really kind of pissed off at Google. I'm on ONE high-traffic e-mail list. Google CLAIMS that you never have to delete messages, but it's not true, and by now, they should know that perfectly well. It's a dead simple feature to implement, and it boggles my mind that they haven't done it. posted by empath at 9:34 AM PST on Feb 17