Friday, October 12, 2012

How to Clean Old Mails from Gmail to increase Mail Storage

Please take care for Important mails

If you don't want to delete mails from a particular label just add -label:important (-label:labelname) in all searches

Tip #1: Delete Automated Updates

In Search Field type
from:noreply* OR from:do-not-reply* OR from:donotreply* OR from:notification*
This way you’ll filter out all the automated updates that come from various sources (such as social media friend requests, calendar reminders, weberp tickets).

Tip #2: Delete All Blog Comment Notifications

Search: [from:wordpress* OR from:disqus]
If you are a blogger who hasn’t disabled comments, you’re probably getting email notifications each time a comment is pending approval or waiting for your reply.

Tip #3: Clean Up Email Subscriptions

Search [from:news* OR from:digest* OR from:auto* OR from:reports* OR from:*mailer*]

TIP # 4 Delete Mails from a particular Period/Year

In the Search field, type before:2010/12/20. That's just an example date.You can use any date you want, Select All & Delete. Date format YYYY/MM/DD.

TIP # 5 Find Attachments & Delete them

has:attachment
has:attachment  (Search for file extension *.jpg *.rar *.zip *.doc *.xls & many more)

You can use multiple options in one search

"has:attachment from:me label:sent before:2011/1/1" - it will show all messages with attachment in the Sent Mail folder before Jan 2011.