Pop3 Email Bulk Delete

[Spurdo]

so anyway, im fixing my mums laptop and in the process decided i'd just reinstall windows (as you do) because its so full of shit. now she's been using outlook express for the last 5 years and it was set to leave a copy of emails on the pop3 server. this has resulted in just over 65,000 emails on the server and now whenever i start outlook it tries to download every last one.

is there an easy way i can send a telnet command or something that can tell the server to delete every last email?

ideas anyone?

chur

[mad082]

why not simply log into the email account on the ISP's website and delete them there? might have to delete them in lots of 20 or so though (like a page at a time)

[Madaz]

if you really must do it through outlook leave pc on overnight to download all emails then in settings make sure you have checked delete from server and ctrl-a and delete

[Spurdo]

why not simply log into the email account on the ISP's website and delete them there? might have to delete them in lots of 20 or so though (like a page at a time)

sure mang, will do. 65,000 emails. 20 at a time. like a boss.

really do not want to let it download them all because its several gigs worth and i had a hard enough time deleting them in the first place because skanky outlook express would only let me delete so many at a time, took forever.

surely theres a way to tell a pop3 server to just delete all?

[Madaz]

windows live mail is a lot better then outlook express not sure if that helps

maybe if you really don't want to keep any emails email the webhost tech support and submit a ticket for them to delete all emails out of said account

[R31Nismoid]

Does outlook express have a "download headers only" option like Outlook itself?

Would take 5-10mins tops to download just the email header information.

Then you can bulk delete from there.

[Madaz]

if i remember correctly it does have to poke around in the settings,

[Spurdo]

Does outlook express have a "download headers only" option like Outlook itself?

Would take 5-10mins tops to download just the email header information.

Then you can bulk delete from there.

not bad.. will try this

[mad082]

sure mang, will do. 65,000 emails. 20 at a time. like a boss.

really do not want to let it download them all because its several gigs worth and i had a hard enough time deleting them in the first place because skanky outlook express would only let me delete so many at a time, took forever.

surely theres a way to tell a pop3 server to just delete all?

i was serious. you may be able to alter how many emails are shown per page and you may be able to change it to 50 or 100 emails per page. or you may simply be able to select a delete all option. would definitely be worth logging in to at least have a look and see if there is an option that will save you a bit of time.