How do I clear over 5000 emails all at once?

[Alana M]

I don't know how that much emails built up in inbox, i think it was from all facebook notifications or something. But anyway how can i delete them all apart from just doing it page by page cause that will take me FOREVER! I use yahoo mail if that makes a difference...

[Barkley Hound]

Click "options ↬ mail options" and then "general" in left column.
Select the option for a scrolling list rather than pages.
Select the entire list and delete.

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[nzskiing]

under delete on your imbox click the tick and it will high lite everthing then hit delete

hope this helps

[LoneStar]

You can ONLY do that if you are "currently" using the new Yahoo (Beta version).

Click Options>>then mail or more options>>and on the "general options" page
(under "Messages settings")---check the button that says "Show all messages in a scrolling list" (with Preview Pane option) .
THEN click "Save changes" in the upper left corner.

That puts all your emails in ONE long scrolling list so you can delete them all at once.
Then---"Select all"---and "delete".

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If you're using the Classic Yahoo version----you can only do a page at a time, but you can assign more emails to a page.
Just change the "messages per page" to 200 instead of 25. That's 8 times faster at least.
Mail page>>options>>mail options----go down to and change the number in the box---then click "save" change.
Now you can delete them page by page----200 at a whack