Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for March 09, 2020

Check the box that highlights them all, then unclick the few you want to keep. Delete the rest.

Bub, you legend!

… should I feel bad that I’m on over 66000 unread?

On my main account – I don’t count the others.

When they back up like that, I change the settings so that they are now organized alphabetically based on who they are from. MUCH easier to eliminate groups of emails. I get about 100 “junk mail” ones for every important one.

Both of my email providers have good spam filters, so I typically have zero to three emails a day.

once you delete those forty thousand emails, that phone will be light as a feather

I have three email accounts, one for basic stuff, one for serious business and one that I give to all the stores. That means I need to check 3 sites, but it is worth it. Usually the store e-mail account, unless I have an order coming in or plan to buy something for a particular business, is easy to clean out, check all, delete

Another trick is to search for a common word, like “sears”, then delete that whole list.

My SpamAssasin is quite well trained: I get less spam than real email. But if it would be possible to eliminate any email that contains links more than once to the same URL it would kill at least 90% of all spam I still get.