De-selecting Items for Deletion?

[DavidB52]

I have my email address posted on one of my web sites as a graphical image which has--so far--been a pretty effective way of preventing spambots from harvesting it. The site is not a high-traffic site and so I rarely get many emails from people who wish to contact me; normally, 0 - 2 emails come in per day. However, there have been the odd times when I get a couple thousand emails over the period of a few days (spam storms). In fact, this past week has been one of those periods. Over the past four or five days I have been getting about 1200 emails a day. I now have a mailbox full of garbage (I think; I haven’t found time to go through all of them yet and see if there are any non-spam messages).

One option for viewing the emails is via the “List” option, which allows me to list All, 10, 20, 50, or 100 emails per page.

However, what I would really like is the capability to delete the garbage faster. Even if I view the emails 100 per page, I still have to click through 50 pages to go through 5000 emails. And I still have to click each email checkbox--one at a time--to select each email for deletion. I do not want to “Delete all emails in this folder” because I do not yet know for sure if all the emails are garbage. If 4998 emails are spam and two are not, how can I de-select those two for deletion?

What I would like:

1)
If I could select all emails listed on a page (10, 20, 50, or 100) or even all emails in the folder--PLUS THE ABILITY TO DESELECT INDIVIDUAL EMAILS--that would be a huge help to me. I could then select 100 emails at a time, or even the whole folder, and then de-select the non-spam emails I do NOT want to delete.

2)
Until I work my way through the huge backlog of emails I have, I do not know what the oldest emails are. Mail2web lists emails from newest to oldest, and so far I haven’t clicked all the way through the list to see what the oldest emails are about. Having the capability to re-order the emails, to have them listed oldest to newest instead of newest to oldest would be another big convenience to me. At least that way I could check out the oldest emails and see if any of them are important or just more spam. As things are now, I have to click through 50+ pages to get back to the oldest emails.

Are either of these two capabilities available (perhaps already offered, but which I simply haven’t figured out)? If not, any chance they could be offered in the near future?

[tim]

Hi David,

If you look at the top of the list view when you log into mail2web Webmail, you'll see the column labels. There's a checkbox in the top-left, if you select it, it will select all the emails on the page for you. You can then de-select the ones you don't want selected.

mail2web Webmail also lets you view 10, 20, 50, 100 and ALL emails at once. If you look in the address bar of your browser you'll see an argument like this:

lp=20

You can change 20 to any number you like, and mail2web Webmail will list that many on the page.

Finally, if you notice in the column headings that Sender, Subject, Date and Size have upward and downward pointing triangles beside them. These are used to sort your email. So you can use these to sort in ascending or descending order by that column. So you can sort by Date to see either the oldest or newest first.

Hope this helps!

[DavidB52]

Thanks, Tim.

I'll try these capabilities out.

(These are the sorts of things redsky99 should put in his Newbie Guide.)

[KevinAFD]

Where do you go to read redsky99's newbie guide?

[HC5]

If you're a newbie, the wikis are also a great place to get info from.

[BigTimeHockeyMom]

I like the wikis because you can get specific info fast whenever you're stuck on a certain thing.

[HC5]

By the way, I'm glad you can see the older emails first. You never know when you want to access something from a year or so ago.