Deleting Emails: I have over 72,000 emails in my Spectrum RoadRunner Inbox. Deleting them isn't easy. If everything works right - which is the exception

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I have over 72,000 emails in my Spectrum RoadRunner Inbox. Deleting them isn't easy. If everything works right - which is the exception - it takes at least thirty seconds to delete 100 emails after I click on the trash can and then click on Yes. Sometimes, it can take several minutes. I figure I will be waiting over 600 hours just for the emails to delete, and that doesn't include the selecting and clicking. When things aren't working just right, I can't even delete them because I'm waiting for Spectrum to get its act together. Gmail, on the other hand, deletes 100 emails in about two seconds. I've used 4.8 of my 5GB limit, so I'll have to keep deleting.

The deleting limit is 100, and there's no way to automatically delete them after a period of time.

gmontjr2350 Loc: Southern NJ

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jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

If you’d delete the trash and spam every day or so, you wouldn’t have the problem.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jaymatt wrote:

If you’d delete the trash and spam every day or so, you wouldn’t have the problem.

I read, decide, save (some) or delete (most) if not needed.
Empty trash can.

I have specific folders for <important> saved stuff.
My inbox count right now is six messages (still deciding).

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

jaymatt wrote:

If you’d delete the trash and spam every day or so, you wouldn’t have the problem.

I seldom look at the Spectrum mail because it can stall, and it's very slow. All that mail gets picked up by Gmail, and that's how I read it.

After deleting about 800 emails, it's stalled, so I can't delete any more. Typical.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jerryc41 wrote:

I seldom look at the Spectrum mail because it can stall, and it's very slow. All that mail gets picked up by Gmail, and that's how I read it.

After deleting about 800 emails, it's stalled, so I can't delete any more. Typical.

Can you maybe set Gmail to use IMAP for the Spectrum mail not POP? You have to set Spectrum up as an "external" mailbox at Gmail, correct?
That way if you delete it via Gmail it will delete it on Spectrum.
I still think you may have to manually delete all existing mail at Spectrum though.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Longshadow wrote:

Can you maybe set Gmail to use IMAP for the Spectrum mail not POP? You have to set Spectrum up as an "external" mailbox at Gmail, correct?
That way if you delete it via Gmail it will delete it on Spectrum.
I still think you may have to manually delete all existing mail at Spectrum though.

Can you try that in English?

It was hard enough getting Gmail to open my RoadRunner mail. If I mess around with it anymore, I won't get any email.

I almost have emails deleted through July. Just a cople more hours!

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

jerryc41 wrote:

I have over 72,000 emails in my Spectrum RoadRunne... (show quote)

I realize you would not pay $.99 per month for this, but I seldom delete email. It cost $.99 per month for extra storage space in my Gmail account. Occasionally, I search for mail from UHH in my inbox and delete. (I receive more mail from UHH than any other sender). Another advantage is the ability to find, lets say, an email from my friend Seymour, sent in 2006. It's still there.
Mark

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

markngolf wrote:

I realize you would not pay $.99 per month for this, but I seldom delete email. It cost $.99 per month for extra storage space in my Gmail account. Occasionally, I search for mail from UHH in my inbox and delete. (I receive more mail from UHH than any other sender). Another advantage is the ability to find, lets say, an email from my friend Seymour, sent in 2006. It's still there.
Mark

It's so easy to delete Gmail, and I don't like a lot of old stuff sitting around. So much of my email is unimportant. And then there's that $.99/mo.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Longshadow wrote:

I read, decide, save (some) or delete (most) if not needed.
Empty trash can.

I have specific folders for <important> saved stuff.
My inbox count right now is six messages (still deciding).

Yes, I have several categories of emails saved - very convenient.

An Inbox with six messages sounds good. All my UHH email goes to a different folder, and I click on that when I want to read it.

Grey Ghost

Why don’t you simply get rid of. Spectrum and use only gmail. Just saying!!

Bayou

Longshadow wrote:

Can you maybe set Gmail to use IMAP for the Spectrum mail not POP? You have to set Spectrum up as an "external" mailbox at Gmail, correct?
That way if you delete it via Gmail it will delete it on Spectrum...

IMAP is the key, for the future anyway, to avoid this problem again.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jerryc41 wrote:

Can you try that in English?

It was hard enough getting Gmail to open my RoadRunner mail. If I mess around with it anymore, I won't get any email.

Sorry, I can't help further, I don't use Gmail....

But I do sometimes use Thunderbird, and it goes to check Comcast email, but I have Thunderbird set up as POP since my primary email client is the Comcast client. I will delete emails in Thunderbird but they remain in Comcast until I delete them in the Comcast client. Thunderbird downloads emails to the PC I am using, making it all "local". If I had Thunderbird set as IMAP, it would delete at Comcast and not be available to use Thunderbird on another machine to see the same emails, like the laptop for traveling. I use the Comcast client as the master control of email.
There should be a "guide" at Spectrum/Roadrunner on how to set up the mailbox on another client.
(I tell Thunderbird the basics and it goes to the email provider and analyzes the mailbox and grabs the ports it wants to use. My website server control panel has info on how to set up email clients. Maybe Spectrum does also?)

Maybe someone here who uses Gmail can assist?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Bayou wrote:

IMAP is the key, for the future anyway, to avoid this problem again.

One must just be careful (cognizant of how IMAP works as opposed to POP) if multiple computers are used for viewing emails, especially when one deletes emails.

cahale Loc: San Angelo, TX

jerryc41 wrote:

I have over 72,000 emails in my Spectrum RoadRunne... (show quote)

Why would you have 72000 "messages?" No one is that lazy. Well, maybe some one is.