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Currently, it is difficult to imagine an Internet user who does not use services that provide free Mailbox for sending and receiving messages (e-mails).

Quite recently, even a friend of mine, who previously couldn’t remember for half an hour how to copy and paste text information in a document using the Ctr + C and Ctrl + V key combinations on the keyboard, also needed it and he asked me to explain how to register it!

With all the advantages Email, it also has some minor drawbacks and the main one is SPAM. It’s worth “highlighting” your e-mail address on the Internet at least once or twice when registering on some sites, guaranteed in a week, two or a month, expect unwanted letters to arrive in your mailbox.

The more time you use email, the more spam you will receive. I have more than one mailbox registered, or even two. And one of them started receiving approximately 340 letters in the Spam folder per day. True, the box was already more than 1.5 years old.

I had neither the desire nor the strength to clean this folder every day, so I decided to delete this mailbox altogether and create a new one. Moreover, I did not connect it to any serious additional products and services.

The procedure for deleting the mailbox was successful and, for now, the problem with spam has been resolved radically. In today's step by step instructions I want to show you how you can get rid of your now unnecessary mailbox and account in such popular services as Gmail, [email protected] and Yandex.Mail.

HOW TO DELETE A MAILBOX

GMAIL

In your mail account, go to “Settings” by clicking on the button with the image of a gear.

We look for the “Accounts and Import” section and follow the link “Other settings Google account».

In the “Data Management” section, go to “Delete Services”.

We carefully read the information, check the box “Yes, I want to delete... from my Google account”, optionally fill in a new primary email address, enter from your mail account and click on the “DELETE GMAIL” button.

HOW TO DELETE YOUR GMAIL ACCOUNT AND DATA

Go to “Delete account and data”.

We read the information carefully, check the boxes where we consider necessary, enter your email password, check “Yes, I want to delete my account,” check the “I acknowledge …” and click on the “DELETE GOOGLE ACCOUNT” button.

Your account has been deleted.

HOW TO DELETE A YANDEX MAILBOX

In your mail account, click on the gear button and click on the “All settings” link.

Enter the password and click on the “Delete” button.

HOW TO GET RID OF YOUR YANDEX ACCOUNT

Let's get acquainted with important information, enter the required answer to Security Question, write the password, enter the characters from the image and click the “Delete account” button.

We press the “Continue” button, having previously learned that this same login can be registered if necessary in a month.

HOW TO DELETE A MAILBOX AND MAIL.RU ACCOUNT

In Mail.ru this is done by a separate service, which is located at:

Http://e.mail.ru/cgi-bin/delete

where we write the reason for deletion, fill in the password and click on the “Delete” button.

The service will ask you again if you are ready to delete your data and, if you answer yes, click the “OK” button.

We receive a message from the system that the mailbox has been deleted (by the way, there is still an opportunity to restore it), and all your other data will be deleted within 5 business days.

If you, dear blog readers, are fed up with spam, now getting rid of it won’t be difficult!

Of course, this question does not arise if you regularly clean out your mailbox, and also if you do not subscribe to various mailing lists or use it to register on forums and social networks. If you at least do not expose your address on the Internet, you at least do not have spam, although large mail services have already learned to fight spam (under large services I mean mail.ru, yandex.ru, gmail.com, although there are other services that are no less protected from spam).

But how to quickly and effectively get rid of megatons of mailings from the category “actions of your friends in the past half hour”, even if you have already exceeded the limit of 4000 letters in a folder (mail.ru limit), after which letters continue to arrive and you can read them? but such a nice bauble as “sorting” no longer works? This is a technological limitation.

But hallelujah, such a convenient service as Search comes to the rescue, in which you can set a search template (for example, VKontakte or vk.com) and delete all found letters wholesale. The method is as simple as a rail and I don’t see the point of describing it in detail. If you helped someone, thank God.

We'll look at another, more intelligent method called Filters. The essence of the trick is this - you have the opportunity to immediately sort out all sorts of mailings from personal or work correspondence, so as not to search through the entire mailbox every time for the desired letter.

It’s very nice that now on some services filters can be applied even to messages that were received before these same filters were created - before this was possible on free services there was none at all.

So let's get started:

We go to the mail and select Configure folder

After this we select Add folder

A window like this opens...

... and enter the folder name into it, for example, Newsletters and place it not in the root, but, for example, in the Inbox folder.

Although, of course, you can leave Folder position in position Top level folder, if, for example, you want to make many subfolders for each newsletter, but this can be done at any time and we will not focus on this. Here we will look at the principle, and then, in the same way, you can create such folders and set up filters yourself. So for now, let’s do steps 1 to 3 and move on to the next stage.

This is the kind of beauty you should have gotten, now let’s move on to the section Filters and forwarding.

And press the button Add filter

Here are marked in red important points, which you should pay attention to when creating a filter. Filters allow you to filter emails based on a large number parameters. If you need full review filter options, you can go to Help, or write in the comments about the need for such an article, and I will try to make a description as soon as possible.

Let's return to our sheep, i.e. creating a filter. In field "If" we choose "From" field, Further contains(when you click on this inscription, it changes to "does not contain") and write the mail domains, mail from which should be placed in the mailing folder. Don't forget to check the box Apply to messages in folders- this is done so that all letters that arrived before creating the filter are also moved to the mailing folder (or any other folder that you have defined)

After creating a filter and clicking on the button Save you see this line. There is no need to change anything else here, I can only say that I have more than a dozen such filters - for informational mailings, from couponers, thematic ones, etc., which I wish for you too.

Hello again everyone! Today I will tell you how to clear the mail in your mailbox. Previously I wrote about that from certain authors. The same article also contained information on how to set filters for unwanted mailings. But, as they say, time does not stand still! Modern technologies make themselves known. And, unfortunately, they are used not only for good, but also for the purpose of “black” promotion.

Why clean your mail?

What exactly are we talking about? The fact is that currently parser programs have begun to gain particular popularity. The task of such programs is one - to obtain as much contact information of Internet users as possible.

Let's say you joined a certain group of some social network (it doesn’t really matter here whether it’s Odnoklassniki, VKontakte or some other social network). Naturally, you fill out information about yourself on your personal page, and of course indicate your email.

That's it, the trap is almost slammed shut! You are already a potential victim! The parser program, at the command of its owner, makes a selection of addresses and submits a report to the owner. And this is where the paths of legal and illegal promotion diverge.

Those who use this program for the good, they use it to organize retargeting, having in principle almost ready target audience. Such offers usually provide some benefit to the recipients. And for the most part there is nothing wrong with that.

Why do spammers attack your email?

Various types of attackers (so-called spammers) act completely differently. They simply flood your inbox with their annoying offers. You simply cannot remember whether you subscribed to this author’s mailing list, seeing that you were receiving crazy offers from him.

This is one of the reasons for a cluttered inbox. The second reason is the likelihood of hacking the account of one or another mailing list author and using his address database for one’s own selfish purposes. There are also those who trade both their own and stolen subscriber bases.

But let's be honest with ourselves! We often contribute to being inundated with junk mail. Almost everyone who wants to make money online goes through this. I’m now talking about a bunch of all kinds of mailing lists that newcomers subscribe to.

And if at first they still have enough time and desire to read all incoming correspondence, then gradually this process slows down, or even stops altogether. Heap unread messages growing. From time to time, when you log into your mail, you are surprised that first one thousand letters remain unread, then two, three...

The winners are those who stop in time in their pursuit of downloading all kinds of courses, gain courage and decisively unsubscribe from unnecessary mailings. Main .

I, too, at one time went through this stage of obtaining “useful” information, until I came to the conclusion that I needed to learn from professionals. Now the number of my subscriptions is a reasonable number, and I receive really useful and necessary correspondence, and also keep an eye on the information business in general.

But what to do if the fact, as they say, is obvious? There is a mailbox, there are the notorious thousands of unnecessary letters, diluted with desirable information in a ratio of 100:1. There are also several exits here. The first, as I already said, is to decisively unsubscribe from all mailings. But you still have to clean out your mail!

How to clear mail - video tutorial

The second way is to sift through mail receipts, separating the useful from the useless, while combining the removal process. This process can be lengthy! But let me introduce you to my algorithm for quickly cleaning your mailbox, which will significantly save both time and nerves. In general terms, all actions can be represented like this.

To dot the i’s, I suggest you look real video real mailbox cleaning. Having repeated what you saw in practice, you will only have to comply with minor formalities for maintaining mail in the future. Of course, it is better to make a commitment to no longer subscribe to right-wing and left-wing courses, free ones, without finally thinking through your decision.

This video, at my request, was recorded by my assistant Sergei. I am sure that you will not only like this video, but also benefit it. Well, I’m currently working on a new course on affiliate programs, which will be available to everyone in the near future, since its price will be very attractive.

So, watch the video on how to clear your mail

This is how, in principle, by working on your mistakes, you can quite quickly bring your mailbox to a common denominator. The video was recorded using the mail.ru service as an example. But the principle of operation applies to everyone postal services. They will differ only in the technique of creating the filter and, of course, in the location of the buttons.

As they say, every broom sweeps differently. I offer you my method, and I want to hear your opinion on this solution to this problem. If you have your own thoughts, share your information in the comments. Personally, I don’t have a bunch of unprocessed emails in my inbox, I try to avoid that.

Best regards, Evgeniy Vergus.

In 2004, Gmail, with its gigabytes of free email storage, seemed like a fairy tale. No one would have thought that such a huge box would ever have to be cleaned. Today the storage has grown 15 times, but the desire to delete thousands of letters does not leave many of us.

The problem lies not in the available space, but in the countless number of unread and simply unnecessary messages. Checking your inbox becomes torture, and the search and tagging system become useless.

However, you can still give your Gmail inbox a second life.

Delete all emails

The first step is to completely empty your inbox. First it is advisable to do backup copy entire box using Google's data export tool. Then it can be opened through an email client, for example Mozilla Thunderbird. It may take several hours or even days to preserve the box, depending on its volume. But the process is carried out on Google servers, so you don’t need to keep your computer turned on.

You can also transfer the most useful and necessary messages to another account via desktop email clients via POP or IMAP protocols.

Be careful! Lifehacker is not responsible for important emails that you may inadvertently delete.

Deleting letters in itself is a simple process. Go to the Gmail page with all messages, check the appropriate box at the top left and to the right click “Select all threads in the “All mail” section.” After this, all you have to do is click on the cart icon and confirm the action.

The letters will appear in the trash can, available in the menu on the left. Go to it and click “Empty Trash”. Also check your spam folder to make sure your account is now completely clean.

Remove unnecessary contacts

Gmail automatically records the contacts of the people you correspond with. This is a big plus of the service, but there is also a minus here: if you handle the function carelessly, your contact list can turn into a messy pile. Quite unexpectedly in phone book A person to whom you wrote only once, and even then 10 years ago, may appear on your Android smartphone.

In this case, everything is a little more complicated than with letters, since contacts are synchronized between different Google services. Ideally, you want to remove all useless email addresses, keep important ones, and leave phone numbers untouched.

Gmail does a pretty good job of organizing emails if you set up an inbox. To do this, click on the gear on the right and click on the corresponding button. If the service sends a message to the wrong category, then drag it manually to the correct one: Gmail will remember your choice and will not make a mistake again.

This means that if the total amount of space occupied by your letters exceeds the permissible value, the server will stop accepting letters and mail will stop working.

To avoid this unpleasant situation, you can use a mail program (The Bat, Microsoft Outlook, etc.) which will itself delete letters from the server, leaving local copies on your computer, or delete letters manually through the web interface.

Deleting emails manually via the web interface

First, you need to log into the site using your mailbox login and password.

There will be four folders on the left. The names correspond to the purpose. For example, the Sent Items folder is designed to store sent emails.

The assignment of folder roles can be changed in the Settings section (the link is underlined in blue in the picture), subsection Folders. Your incoming emails are saved in the Inbox folder. Enter it.

To delete letters you need:

The last two actions have the same result - the selected letters will go to the trash folder.

These actions are not enough to free up space on the server, because... we simply moved the emails from the inbox to the trash. For their complete removal You need to click the clear link next to the cart.

Setting up Microsoft Office Outlook

To configure settings for deleting emails from the server in Microsoft Office Outlook you need to edit your account settings.

To do this, go to the menu “Tools” - “Options”

To change your account, select “view or change existing Accounts" and click the "Next" button.

In the list that appears, select your entry that relates to our server (an entry of the form login@site.) and click the “Edit” button.

The account settings window will appear:

You need to click on the “Other settings” button and in the window that appears, open the “Advanced” tab.

There are three checkboxes in the settings:

Leave copies of the message on the server;
Delete from the server after... days;
Delete from the server when deleting from “Deleted”;

Disabling the first checkbox disables the other two (this is the most the best option for our server). In this case, when your mailer receives letters, it copies them to itself without leaving them on the server. Thus, the server uses a minimum of space for storing letters (only new letters are stored on it until your next connection). The disadvantage of this configuration is that mail can only be received once. If, for example, you have two programs (for example, at home and at work) and you received all the mail at home, then at work you will no longer be able to receive these letters (they did not remain on the server and, therefore, there is nowhere to get them from).

The second option (the first and second checkboxes are enabled) deletes only those messages from the server that were moved to the “Deleted Items” folder and after a specified number of days.

The third option (the first and third checkboxes are enabled) deletes messages from the server only after they are deleted from the “Deleted Items” folder.

Setting up The Bat

To configure automatic deletion of letters from the server in The Bat, you need to edit the properties of your mailbox.

To do this, go to the “Mailbox” menu - “Mailbox Properties”. (or press Shift+ Ctrl+ P)

In the window that opens, go to “Mail Management”

There are three options for deleting emails:

removal from the server immediately after receipt;
deletion from the server after a specified number of days after deleting the letter to the trash;
deletion from the server after deleting from the recycle bin;

The first option is “delete received letters from the server” (this is the best option for our server).

In this case, when your mailer receives letters, it copies them to itself without leaving them on the server. Thus, the server uses a minimum of space for storing letters (only new letters are stored on it until your next connection). The disadvantage of this configuration is that mail can only be received once. If, for example, you have two programs (for example, at home and at work) and you received all the mail at home, then at work you will no longer be able to receive these letters (they did not remain on the server and, therefore, there is nowhere to get them from).

The second option (letters remain on the server and the retention period for letters is specified) deletes only those letters from the server that were moved to the trash bin and after a specified number of days.

The third option (“letters remain on the server” and “delete letters from the server only when they are deleted from the trash”) deletes letters from the server only after they are deleted from the trash