The GMail user interface has been updated to include the ability to select multiple messages and perform actions on them. In plain-speak: you can select all messages and mark them read or apply a label of choice, all in one stroke. Hard to believe that this functionality wasn't already embedded in, isn't it? Also included for the neat freaks amongst us - the ability to empty the Trash / Spam folders in one click. Well, it's two actually - you need to go the folder in question (Trash or Spam) and then click the DELETE ALL link. That pops up a confirmation alert box, to which you give your assent for the evil messages to be obliterated. A short tutorial is available here

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Hi, the ability to select multiple messages and perform actions on them is included some time ago, since i use gmail -more than 6 months- i use it every time, and the ability to empty the trash / spam folders in one click is included recently i think about two weeks ago.

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Yeah its been around for a short while. Particularly helpful when deleting trash and spam

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I did a search, but couldn't find any mention of it on the forums, so I deided to post the info. Apologies, if it were posted earlier. And the rollout of the "Delete All" / "Empty Trash" links is still being carried out - not everyone has got them yet. As with all new features, GMail spreads it and staggers the deployment across all its users.

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by the size of gmail space.. the only thing i will do is delete spam.. i think if spam is deleted.. it goes to trash.. i am not sure..

i dont erase my trash.. who knows that in the rigth time.. those garbage can be really usefull.. so i got 1k+ of emails in my trash and mga gmail space is still at 15%..

maybe i need to erase the trash after.. hmm.. a year?

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15%??? Wow.. That's a lot. My GMail space usage is 1% Anyhow, there's no need to delete spam, just leave it lying there. After 30 days, it is automatically deleted. The same goes for Deleted items - that's why I don't delete anything, who knows if I'll need it some time later.

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15%..

5% of it is server logs.. i set up my working stations to send logs at the rate of 1 per hour per cron job running.. and of course the server is sending status reports per cron job run.. when an error is encountered.. a database field will be adjusted and a cron job will adjust the reporting and runs every 5 mins.. now this will be very bulky..


1% is my personal emails.. 7% are subscriptions and reminders.. and two ftp programs just hanging around in my inbox..

the rest are spam.. and and emails i no longer want to read.. it just sits in my trash.. my spam is being cleared every time i login..

2% space for a 2.8gig email space amounts to thousands of spam.. nice thing is they stack up nicely in my spam folder.. and gmail only have miss 3 times in its spam filter..

hotmail and yahoo always tends to send my legit emails to spam and most of spams to my inbox..

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I do delete spam...but that's just because the spam really annoys me. It feels like it's cluttering my inbox, even though it doesn't really matter since it doesn't appear in the inbox and I have all the space I need. I end up deleting a lot because I'm sort of a neat freak and don't like random (stupid) emails lying around in my inbox. If I don't like it...it goes straight to trash.

Hmm...the ability to select multiple messages? I remember that being included in the interface ever since I started using. The Select: All, None, Read, Unread, Starred, etc feature was always there...And when I first started using labels, I could easily select multiple messages. I don't get how this is recent. About the delete all button in the spam and trash folders, well, I've never actually found them. (Pitiful me) I just select all and then click 'delete forever'.

My inbox size is at around 2%. I direct my subscriptions emails to another inbox so that I don't actually have to look at them. All subscriptions directed at my Gmail account I have a filter that drops them in archives under the label of subscriptions in case they ever come of any use. It's like all the clutter that comes in my normal mailbox...except that in that case I can't do a thing.

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sparx: No problem, and you are right not everyone gets immediately all the new features of gmail, and forgive me because the new features that you mention in your first post are correct. I confused it with the earlier features, the ones you mention are new, i just verified it.

vhortex: I make a test to verify if the deleted spam goes to the trash and the result is no, it is deleted, and after 30 days the trash folder is empty. Now, one of the best things that gmail have is its spam filter, for me is the best one, hotmail and yahoo dont have its effectiveness.

BTW, i still have my gmail space at 1% and as you, the first thing i do every time i login is to clear my spam folder.

arbitrary: I think i'm a sort of a neat freak too, i exactly do the same thing

Now, another two new features of gmail are its capacity to undo your last action and the display of web clips that appears between the page header and the mails counter. The first one is very helpful but the second its a bit disturber, but GMAIL ROCKS

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I LOVE gmail. I love all the options, space, and that it kicks yahoo, hotmail, and everyone else's bums.

Gmail is sooo nifty.

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