How to delete all emails from a sender in gmail

An email inbox folder or email archive folder can soon get cluttered if you don’t regularly delete messages that you no longer require. Most email programs and services let you delete multiple emails from a specific sender at the same time. To delete thousands of emails from a specific sender, use the email application’s Search function to display the messages, and then select and delete the items to purge the emails from your inbox and other folders.

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Selecting Multiple Messages From an Email Folder
Delete Multiple Messages From an Email Folder
Selecting and Deleting Multiple Messages From All Email Folders
Considerations
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Selecting Multiple Messages From an Email Folder

Most email applications let you display your email messages in many ways, including by date, subject and sender. To select messages, first access the inbox or other email folder that contains the messages that you want to delete. In Windows Live Mail, Microsoft Outlook and online services such as Yahoo! Mail, select the correct folder from the left-hand menu. After opening the email folder, click the “From” column tab to arrange and display emails grouped by sender. In Outlook and Windows Live Mail, click and highlight the first email message that you want to delete, and then press and hold the “Shift” key and “Down” arrow key to select the multiple messages. For online services, such as Yahoo! Mail, you’ll need to click and select the check box beside each message, which is far more time consuming when faced with thousands of emails to select.

Delete Multiple Messages From an Email Folder

After selecting and highlighting the email messages, deleting them simultaneously is straightforward. In Outlook or Windows Live Mail, right-click the highlighted messages and select the “Delete” option from the context menu, or simply press the “Delete” or “Del” key on the computer keyboard. In Yahoo! Mail, click the “Delete” button in the email toolbar to delete all selected messages. Email applications usually send the deleted emails to the “Deleted Items” folder, which you'll need to empty to completely remove the emails from your system.

Selecting and Deleting Multiple Messages From All Email Folders

Although finding email messages with the folder view is an effective way of deleting emails stored in a single folder, the procedure can take time if you’ve stored messages from the sender in multiple email folders. To tackle this problem, use the email application’s Search function. In Microsoft Outlook, click the “Search” tab on the main menu ribbon and then click the “All Mail Items” button. Type the sender’s name into the input box. Outlook scans all mail folders and displays all messages from the sender. Right-click anywhere inside the main pane and then click “Select All” from the context menu. You can then delete all messages. Windows Live Mail offers a similar feature, but you’ll need to click the “Folders” tab followed by the “Find” button and enter the sender’s name into the “From” box. In addition, ensure you click and select the “Include Subfolders” check box. In Yahoo! Mail, use the “Search Mail” feature at the top of the page. Place "from:" (without quotes) in the Search box before the sender's name to display only emails from the specific sender.

Considerations

Finding, selecting and deleting thousands of email messages from the same sender is generally easier and quicker with computer email programs than online email services because computer programs offer more email message search and selection functions. After deleting the messages, you can also block any further emails from the sender by adding the sender’s email address to the blocked sender list that you can access from the email program’s Junk Mail Options tool. After enabling this feature, all future emails will go straight to the Junk Mail or Deleted Items folders, depending on your junk and spam email preferences.

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Most email providers let you delete all the emails sent from one sender. The steps to do this vary by email provider, but you'll generally search for the sender's name or email address to find all their messages, and then you can delete them in bulk. This wikiHow shows you how to delete all emails from one email address in a few popular email services, like Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail.

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Login to your Gmail account. Since this method works from your browser, it works for both Mac and Windows computers.
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Type "from:EMAILADDRESS" in the search field and press ↵ Enter. The search field is above the inbox or list of emails. After you press "Enter," you'll see a list of emails sent from that address.

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Click to select the box above the search results. This box also has a downward-facing arrow next to it and is next to the "Refresh" symbol. All the boxes next to the emails listed will be selected.
- You can also click the downwards-facing arrow to edit your selection.
4
Click the trashcan icon
to delete the selected emails. The caption "Delete" appears over the trashcan when you hover over it.
- You may need to confirm this action by clicking OK in the pop-up box when prompted.
5
Click the Trash tab. You'll find this in the Gmail menu on the left side of the screen. Clicking this will open your trash. Your trash will automatically delete every 30 days, but you can do this now if you want to.
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Click Empty Trash now. You'll find this above the list of emails. [1]

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Open Gmail. This app icon looks like a red and white envelope. You can find this app on your home screen, in the app drawer, or by searching.
- You can use this method on any mobile device that uses Gmail and the steps are the same. Most of the time, Android phones and tablets use Gmail as their default email app.
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Type "from:EMAILADDRESS" in the search field and press ↵ Enter. The search field is at the top of the inbox or list of emails. After you press "Enter," you'll see a list of emails sent from that address.
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Tap the icon next to the message to select it. Unfortunately, there's no quick way to select multiple emails within the Gmail app, so you'll have to go through and tap all the icons to select all the emails.
4
Tap the trashcan icon
to delete the selected emails. All emails in the trash will be permanently deleted 30 days after they were moved into the trash.[2]

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Open Outlook. This app icon looks like a white sheet with a blue "O" next to a white envelope. You'll find this on either your home screen, in the app drawer, or by searching.
- You can use this method on any mobile device that Outlook uses (including Android and iOS) and the steps are similar. The mobile app, however, does not support the functionality to select multiple messages at a time, so you will have to open each email and delete it manually.
2
Tap the search icon
. You'll see this centered at the bottom of your screen.
3
Type the sender's email address. Make sure you press "Enter" on your keyboard when you're done. All the emails from that sender will appear.
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Tap an email to open it. Unfortunately, the mobile app does not have a way to select multiple emails, so you will have to open every email.
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Tap the trashcan icon

. That email will be deleted.
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Repeat the previous 2 steps until all the messages are deleted.

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Login to your Outlook account. This method works for both Mac and Windows computers.
2
Press Ctrl+E (Windows) or ⌘ Cmd+E (Mac). The search feature will open.
3
Click Search in the search bar. A menu will pop up.
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Click From. By choosing "From," you will search via email address.
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Type the sender email address and press ↵ Enter. You'll see a list of all the emails sent from that email address appear.
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Click one email and press Ctrl+A (Windows) or ⌘ Cmd+A (Mac). All the emails are selected.
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Right-click on the emails. A menu will pop up next to your cursor.
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Click Delete. All the selected emails will be deleted.

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Open Mail. This app icon looks like a white envelope on a blue background. You can find this in your dock or home screen. The Apple Mail app is the default mail app for iOS and macOS devices and pulls emails from linked accounts, such as Gmail and Yahoo.
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Type the sender you want to find all the emails from. The search bar is at the top of the mail app, but if you don't see it, swipe down to reveal it.
- Don't forget to tap the search icon on your keyboard. When you do press the search icon, every email from that sender is listed.
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Tap Edit. You'll see this in the bottom right corner of your screen. You'll see the options for Move, Archive, Mark, and/or Delete appear.
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Tap a circle next to an email to select it. The circle will highlight in blue to show it has been selected.
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Tap and hold the Move option and tap the same email from the previous step. You'll activate an option that will let you move all similar items to the email you tapped.
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Tap Trash. You'll see a list of folders and email accounts you can send those emails to, but you'll want to select "Trash" from the list to delete them.
- All the emails from the same sender will move into the trash.[3]

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Open the Mail app. You'll find this in the Dock or Applications folder.
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Type the email address into the search bar and press ↵ Enter. You'll find the search bar above your inbox.
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Click an email in the search results. You'll see the body of the message on the right side of the window.
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Press ⌘ Cmd+A. All the emails will be selected.
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Click the trashcan icon. You'll see this button above your list of search results, next to a thumbs-down icon. All your selected messages will be deleted.[4]

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Login to your Yahoo account. Since this method works from your browser, it works for both Mac and Windows computers.
- This method is not the same if you're using Yahoo Basic or Classic. You'll need to switch mailboxes to follow along. You can do that easily by clicking the pop-up box that appears on all Yahoo Basic mailboxes.
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Type "from:EMAILADDRESS" in the search field and press ↵ Enter. You'll see the search field located above the inbox or list of emails.
- After you press "Enter," you'll see a list of emails sent from that address.
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Click to select the box above the search results. This box also has a downward-facing arrow next to it and is next to the "Refresh" symbol. All the boxes next to the emails listed will be selected.
- You can click the downwards-facing arrow to edit your selection.
4
Click the trashcan icon
to delete all the selected emails. The caption "Delete" appears over the trashcan when you hover over it.[5]

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1. Open Gmail on your browser and log in.
2. Type from:EMAILADDRESS in the search field and press Enter on your keyboard.
3. Click to select the box above the search results.
4. Click the trashcan icon to delete those messages.

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How to Delete All Emails from One Sender in Gmail.

Find any message from the sender whose emails you want to remove and right-click on it..

Select the “Finder emails from [sender name]” option..

Select all found messages..

Click the Delete button..

Can you delete all emails from a sender at once?

Most email programs and services let you delete multiple emails from a specific sender at the same time. To delete thousands of emails from a specific sender, use the email application's Search function to display the messages, and then select and delete the items to purge the emails from your inbox and other folders.