Hello Keith. Even though the iPhone only shows you the last 50 or 100 messages depending on your settings, I completely understand your need to eventually reach zero inbox status. I only have about three or 400 messages in my inbox and it still drives me nuts. Like Chris said, you will need a PC client or Mac clients such as Thunderbird in order to delete all messages at once. Unfortunately neither the iPhone or the Google mail website allows you to select all messages and delete them in one swipe. However all is not lost, the nice thing is that you can go to the Gmail website and define filters to move messages which meet a certain criteria into certain folders. Google mail treats labels in the way that we think of as folders. What I would do first is go to the Google mail website and create as many labels as you think you will need. For example in my case I have things like receipts, confirmations, Amazon, iOS purchases, the iPhone, etc. I even have the labels for family, business, personal, read later, and more. Once you create these labels, you can start creating filters. For example you can create a filter and put the V iPhone address in the to field. When you first define a filter there is a test filter button. Activate that button and toward the bottom of the screen it will show you the search results of your inbox that have messages addressed to this list. This way you will know if the filter will work. Then you press the next button and define what you want to do with messages which meet this filter criteria. For example the filter I set for this list will skip the inbox and copy the messages over to the V iPhone label which looks like a folder in my iPhone or in Thunderbird. You mentioned in one of your emails that you set up filters to put things in personal. My guess is that maybe you did not check the box which tells it to skip the inbox. After all this long explanation, let me give you the best link for Gmail. Hopefully this will help clear your inbox.
http://mail.google.com/mail/h. --- Sent from Raul's iPhone - (832) 554-7285. Please excuse any dictation or auto complete errors. On May 21, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Keith Bundy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, list. I totally ablowed the gmail horses to stampede, and my > inbox is completely out of control, with several thousandand messages. > So I have two questions. > > First, is it possible to delete the entire contents of my inbox > without going through message by message? Second, I thought I had > tagged my messages from this list to go to a Personal folder. However, > they still come to my inbox with the tag "Personal" on each of them. > Any ideas how I can correct this? > > Thanks for any suggestions you can give. > > Keith > > -- > Keith Bundy > > Check out my latest messages from First Baptist Church of Madison, SD > at http://www.keithbundy.org/sermons > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
