Where do old, unread emails go to die?

[zanana1]

I must have thousands at this point and I don't have the time or patience to X each one.

[Haggard Celine]

1. I've wondered that before.

My email automatically gets separated into categories, including a spam folder, but I still delete about 80% of the mail that gets to me, without reading any of it. I need to go through my spam folder and delete all that shit. Where will it all go? Seems like it would end up somewhere, but I have no idea where.

[femmedem]

2. One quick way to qet rid of some without losing important ones by accident

is to do a search for certain stores or organizations that email you frequently. I just deleted about a thousand emails in a minute or two by searching for emails sent from a particular online store, hitting Select All, and deleting them 50 at a time until I was done. (The Select All only applied to the fifty emails that showed up on my screen at one time.) I also had to confirm for each batch of fifty that yes, I really did want to trash all those emails.

Other people with more expertise than me will probably jump in, but if they don't, I hope that helps.

[zanana1]

6. Thank you!

[appalachiablue]

9. +1 good to know, I have a mountain of them to discard.

[Turbineguy]

3. Hunter Biden's laptop.

That said, I just eliminated many thousands by grouping them by sender and dumping them.

[underpants]

4. 😆

[femmedem]

5. LOL!

Good one!

[efhmc]

7. Darn,I hope you get some help but I was looking for a good punchlince.

[CloudWatcher]

8. move out the ones you want to save

Review it for the very few that are worth saving. Move them to another folder.

Then I'm sure there is some sort of "select all" command to quickly delete
all the messages that are still in your inbox. No need to select each one
individually.

[LeftInTX]

10. AOL keeps them on their server

I have 80,000 unread emails.

The oldest is from 2018, so I guess they delete them after 80,000

I don't have time LOL