How to clear your entire mailbox. How to clear your Gmail account of everything unnecessary

From certain authors. The same article also contained information on how to install filters for unwanted mailings. But, as they say, time does not stand still! Modern technologies make themselves known. And, unfortunately, they are used not only for good, but also for the purpose of “black” promotion.

What exactly are we talking about? The fact is that currently parser programs have begun to gain particular popularity. The task of such programs is one - to obtain as much contact information of Internet users as possible.

Let's say you joined a certain group of a social network (it doesn't really matter whether it's Odnoklassniki, VKontakte or some other social network). Naturally, you fill out information about yourself on your personal page, and of course indicate your email.

That's it, the trap is almost slammed shut! You are already a potential victim! The parser program, at the command of its owner, makes a selection of addresses and submits a report to the owner. And this is where the paths of legal and illegal promotion diverge.

Those who use this program for the good, they use it to organize retargeting, having in principle almost ready target audience. Such offers usually provide some benefit to the recipients. And for the most part there is nothing wrong with that.

Various types of attackers (so-called spammers) act completely differently. They simply pour into your Mailbox with your annoying offers. You simply cannot remember whether you subscribed to this author’s mailing list, seeing that you were receiving crazy offers from him.

This is one of the reasons for a cluttered inbox. The second reason is the likelihood of hacking the account of one or another mailing list author and using his address database for one’s own selfish purposes. There are also those who trade both their own and stolen subscriber bases.

But let's be honest with ourselves! Often we ourselves contribute to being overwhelmed junk mail. Almost everyone who wants to make money online goes through this. I’m now talking about a bunch of all kinds of mailing lists that newcomers subscribe to.

And if at first they still have enough time and desire to read all incoming correspondence, then gradually this process slows down, or even stops altogether. Heap unread messages growing. From time to time, when you log into your mail, you are surprised that first one thousand letters remain unread, then two, three...

The winners are those who stop in time in their pursuit of downloading all kinds of courses, gain courage and decisively unsubscribe from unnecessary mailings. The main thing is that I wrote about this

I won't say that I'm not like that. I, too, at one time went through this stage of obtaining “useful” information, until I came to the conclusion that I needed to learn from professionals. Now the number of my subscriptions is a reasonable number, and I receive really useful and necessary correspondence, and also keep an eye on the information business in general.

But what to do if the fact, as they say, is obvious? There is a mailbox, there are the notorious thousands of unnecessary letters, diluted with desirable information in a ratio of 100:1. There are also several exits here. The first, as I already said, is to decisively unsubscribe from all mailings. But you still have to clean out your mail!

And the second way is to sift through mail receipts, separating the useful from the useless, while combining the removal process. This process can be lengthy! But let me introduce you to my algorithm for quickly cleaning your mailbox, which will significantly save both time and nerves. IN general outline All actions can be represented like this:

Well, in order to dot all the i’s, I suggest you watch a real video of real cleaning in the mailbox. Having repeated what you saw in practice, you will only have to comply with minor formalities for maintaining mail in the future. Of course, it is better to make a commitment to no longer subscribe to right-wing and left-wing courses, free ones, without finally thinking through your decision.

This video, at my request, was recorded by my assistant Sergei. I am sure that you will not only like this video, but also benefit it. Well, I’m currently working on a new course on affiliate programs, which will be available to everyone in the near future, since its price will be very attractive.

So, watch the video on how to clear your mail.

This is how, in principle, by working on your mistakes, you can quite quickly bring your mailbox to a common denominator. The video was recorded using the mail.ru service as an example, but the operating principle applies to all mail services. They will differ only in the technique of creating the filter, and of course, in the location of the buttons.

As they say, every broom sweeps differently. I offer you my method, and I want to hear your opinion on this solution to this problem. If you have your own thoughts, share your information in the comments. Personally, I don’t have a bunch of unprocessed emails in my inbox, I try to avoid that.

Best regards, Evgeniy Vergus.

In this lesson I will show you how to delete your mail on Mail.ru forever. It will be erased with all letters and settings. Also, the Cloud, My World and other services will close along with it.

Instructions for deleting Mail mail

You can completely remove your mail on Mail from the Internet. To do this, you need to delete your account on the mail.ru website. Then the mailbox will be blocked and letters will no longer be sent to it. All settings will also be erased and all site services will be deleted: Cloud, My World and others.

Right now I will show you how to delete mail from your computer. From the phone this is done in approximately the same way, which I will talk about later.

Note: if given address email you used to register on other sites (for example, Skype), you may have problems accessing them.

1 . We go into the box that needs to be destroyed, and at the top of it click on the “More” item. Select “Help” from the list.

2. Opens new inset, where in the “Registration and Login” section (below) click on the item “How to delete a mailbox”.

4 . Another tab opens with a warning that everything else will be erased along with the mail. Click “Delete”.

6. The box is locked and all contents are erased. Now you can close all tabs and forget about this address.

If someone sends a letter to it, it will not be delivered and the sender will receive a notification about it.

How to erase a mailbox from your phone

1 . In your smartphone's browser (Internet program), go to the website mail.ru.

2. Sign in to your mailbox. To do this, click on the “Mail” inscription, type your login/password and click “Login”.

If the “Mail Application” window pops up, click “No, thanks.”

4 . Type any reason for deletion, enter the password for the mailbox, the code from the picture and click “Delete”.

A message will appear that the email has been destroyed. That's all! Now you can close the tab - the mail is already blocked.

How to delete an application

Android: Settings - Applications (Programs) - Mail.ru Mail - Delete.

iPhone: Touch and hold the app icon until a cross appears. Then click on the cross and select "Delete".

How to delete email if you forgot your password

It happens that you need to destroy a mailbox from which you do not remember the login information - login and password. In this case, you first need to try to restore access to your profile.

The first thing you need to know is the exact mail address. After all, the address can either end with @mail.ru or with other endings: @list.ru, @inbox.ru or @bk.ru. And these will be different Mailboxes.

In addition, if you mix up just one letter or number in the name before the @ sign, it will also be a different mailbox - not yours.

Example of an email address

And the second thing you need to know is the exact password. It consists exclusively of English letters, numbers may be used. The size of the letters (large or small) also matters.

Without a password, you cannot delete your page on Mail, so you will need to recover it first. To do this, in the login window on the site, click “Forgot your password?” and follow the instructions.

Read more about restoring access in the lesson “My mail".

What to do if you can’t restore the box? Then you just need to wait: when the address is not used for more than six months, the administration has the right to destroy it.

If you haven't used the mailbox in a while and can't log into it, it's probably already deleted.

It's easy to check: send a letter to your old mail. If you receive a notification about an undelivered message, it means the mailbox is closed. It simply no longer exists in the system.

Or you can try to register this address. If such a username is available, then the mailbox has been automatically deleted.

Is it possible to restore mail?

You can only return the box within three months after it was closed. But everything that was in it will be irretrievably destroyed. Deleted emails and files cannot be recovered.

To restore deleted mail, you just need to open the mail.ru website and indicate in the login window correct address and password.

The box will open without any problems on the part of the system (you won’t even need confirmation), but it will be empty.

Alternative to deletion

Deleting mail is a very important step. After all, all letters and services are immediately erased along with it. This is not always suitable, and now I will tell you about more gentle ways to deal with your address.

Exit from the box

Sometimes a person just needs to close the box specific device. For example, you logged into your personal email on your work computer. And now every time you log into the mail.ru website, the mailbox opens automatically.

To prevent this from happening, you just need to log out of your account. Then the mail will remain in the system, but this computer it will no longer load automatically.

To log out of your mail on your computer, open the mail.ru website and in the login form, click on the door icon.

Forwarding letters

It often happens that a person has not used mail on Mile for a long time: he has a different address on another website. But he used to leave his old box with different people. And I don’t really want to delete it in case one of them writes.

Or it happens that you don’t want to delete mail on mail.ru, because all sorts of things are attached to it necessary services. For example, you have registered Skype, a page on a social network, or a profile on a dating site. And if you close your mailbox, you may lose access to these services.

In this case, instead of deleting, it is better to set up email forwarding. Then when a message arrives at old address it will be redirected to the new one. And it doesn’t matter which site new address: on Yandex, Google (gmail.com) or some other.

1 . We go to the mailbox on mail.ru, from which we need to redirect letters. Click on its address in the upper right corner. From the list, select “Mail Settings”.

3. Click on the “Add forwarding” button.

4 . Specify the address to which letters should be forwarded and click “Save”.

6. After this, the transfer is added, but for it to start working, it needs to be confirmed. To do this, click on the appropriate link and follow the instructions.

If everything is done correctly, the “Confirmed” mark will appear in the “Filtering Rules”. But besides this, you will also need to set the switch to “ON” - just click on it.

That's all! Now all letters will be automatically redirected to another address. If desired, this setting can be turned off at any time.

If you do not receive a confirmation email, check your Spam folder. For me, for example, it ended up exactly there.

Filtration

If you decide to leave Mail because you are receiving unwanted emails (spam), then this can be resolved through filtering. Simply mark those messages that you would not like to receive, click on the “More” button and select “Create a filter” from the list.

Or you can even select the “Delete forever” option. The main thing is not to forget to save the settings and check that this filter is marked “ON”.

Conclusion

• To close a mailbox, you need to know its exact address and password. This data can be recovered. Or you can just wait - in six months the post office will most likely close on its own.
• In addition to deleting, there are other ways to get rid of the mailbox: forwarding letters, filtering. And if you just need to remove it from someone else’s computer, click on “exit” in the right top corner site.
• You can return a deleted mailbox, but only within three months after it was closed. After 90 days it will be completely erased, beyond the possibility of recovery.

Of course, this question does not arise if you regularly clean your mailbox, and also if you do not subscribe to various mailing lists, do not use it to register on forums and in social networks. If you at least do not “expose” your address on the Internet, you at least do not have spam, although large mail services have already learned to fight spam (under large services I mean mail.ru, yandex.ru, gmail.com, although there are other services that are no less protected from spam).

But how to quickly and effectively get rid of megatons of mailings from the category “actions of your friends in the past half hour”, even if you have already exceeded the limit of 4000 letters in a folder (mail.ru limit), after which letters continue to arrive and you can read them? but such a nice bauble as “sorting” no longer works? This is a technological limitation.

But hallelujah, such a convenient service as Search comes to the rescue, in which you can set a search template (for example, VKontakte or vk.com) and delete all found letters wholesale. The method is as simple as a rail and I don’t see the point of describing it in detail. If you helped someone, thank God.

We'll look at another, more intelligent method called Filters. The essence of the trick is this - you have the opportunity to immediately sort out all sorts of mailings from personal or work correspondence so as not to search through the entire mailbox every time for the desired letter.

It’s very nice that now on some services filters can be applied even to messages that were received before these same filters were created - before this was possible on free services there wasn't at all.

So let's get started:

We go to the mail and select Configure folder

After this we select Add folder

A window like this opens...

... and enter the folder name into it, for example, Newsletters and place it not in the root, but, for example, in the Inbox folder.

Although, of course, you can leave Folder position in position Folder on upper level , if, for example, you want to make many subfolders for each newsletter, but this can be done at any time and we will not focus on this. Here we will look at the principle, and then in the same way you can create such folders and set up filters yourself. So for now, let’s do steps 1 through 3 and move on to the next stage.

This is the kind of beauty you should have gotten, now let’s move on to the section Filters and forwarding.

And press the button Add filter

Here are marked in red important points, which you should pay attention to when creating a filter. Filters allow you to filter emails based on a large number parameters. If you need full review filter options, you can go to Help, or write in the comments about the need for such an article, and I will try to as soon as possible make a description.

Let's return to our sheep, i.e. creating a filter. In field "If" we choose From field, Further contains(when you click on this inscription, it changes to "does not contain") and write email domains, mail from which should be placed in the mailing folder. Don't forget to check the box Apply to messages in folders- this is done so that all letters that arrived before creating the filter are also moved to the mailing folder (or any other folder that you have defined)

After creating a filter and clicking on the button Save you see this line. There is no need to change anything else here, I can only say that I have more than a dozen such filters - for informational mailings, from couponers, thematic ones, etc., which I wish for you too.

This means that if the total amount of space occupied by your letters exceeds permissible value, then the server will stop accepting letters and mail will stop working.

To avoid this unpleasant situation, you can use a mailer program ( The Bat, MicrosoftOutlook, etc.) which will itself delete letters from the server, leaving local copies on your computer, or delete letters manually through the web interface.

Deleting emails manually via the web interface

First, you need to log into the site using your mailbox login and password.

There will be four folders on the left. The names correspond to the purpose. For example, the Sent Items folder is designed to store sent emails.

The assignment of folder roles can be changed in the Settings section (the link is underlined in blue in the picture), subsection Folders. Your incoming emails are saved in the Inbox folder. Enter it.

To delete letters you need:

The last two actions have the same result - the selected letters will go to the trash folder.

These actions are not enough to free up space on the server, because... we simply moved the emails from the inbox to the trash. For their complete removal You need to click the clear link next to the cart.

Setting up Microsoft Office Outlook

To configure settings for deleting emails from the server in Microsoft Office Outlook you need to edit your account settings.

To do this, go to the menu “Tools” - “Options”

To change your account, select “view or change existing Accounts" and click the "Next" button.

In the list that appears, select your entry that relates to our server (an entry of the form login@site.) and click the “Edit” button.

The account settings window will appear:

You need to click on the “Other settings” button and in the window that appears, open the “Advanced” tab.

There are three checkboxes in the settings:

• Leave copies of the message on the server;
• Delete from the server after... days;
• Delete from the server when deleting from “Deleted”;

Disabling the first checkbox disables the other two (this is the most the best option for our server). In this case, when your mailer receives letters, it copies them to itself without leaving them on the server. Thus, the server uses a minimum of space for storing letters (only new letters are stored on it until your next connection). The disadvantage of this configuration is that mail can only be received once. If, for example, you have two programs (for example, at home and at work) and you received all the mail at home, then at work you will no longer be able to receive these letters (they did not remain on the server and, therefore, there is nowhere to get them from).

The second option (the first and second checkboxes are enabled) deletes only those messages from the server that were moved to the “Deleted Items” folder and after a specified number of days.

The third option (the first and third checkboxes are enabled) deletes messages from the server only after they are deleted from the “Deleted Items” folder.

Setting up The Bat

For settings automatic deletion messages from the server in The Bat, you need to edit the properties of your mailbox.

To do this, go to the “Mailbox” menu - “Mailbox Properties”. (or press Shift+ Ctrl+ P)

In the window that opens, go to “Mail Management”

There are three options for deleting emails:

• removal from the server immediately after receipt;
• deletion from the server after a specified number of days after deleting the letter to the trash;
• deletion from the server after deleting from the recycle bin;

The first option is “delete received letters from the server” (this is the best option for our server).

In this case, when your mailer receives letters, it copies them to itself without leaving them on the server. Thus, the server uses a minimum of space for storing letters (only new letters are stored on it until your next connection). The disadvantage of this configuration is that mail can only be received once. If, for example, you have two programs (for example, at home and at work) and you received all the mail at home, then at work you will no longer be able to receive these letters (they did not remain on the server and, therefore, there is nowhere to get them from).

The second option (letters remain on the server and the retention period for letters is specified) deletes only those letters from the server that were moved to the trash bin and after a specified number of days.

The third option (“letters remain on the server” and “delete letters from the server only when they are deleted from the trash”) deletes letters from the server only after they are deleted from the trash

The fourth option (all checkboxes enabled) will act as the second and third options combined.

With this configuration, eventually the mailbox will still be full and mail will stop working.