Then they are gone from the Gmail inbox.Īs far as your problem now, I am just throwing out an idea that may not be fully baked yet. When you transfer your unwanted emails from the Gmail inbox to the newly created data file, you should MOVE them, not copy them. I'll answer this first, since it is straightforward. Many Gmail users who use Outlook with IMAP will eventually need to delete emails in bulk from the Gmail server, while keeping them on their computer. I've looked for some way to give an attribute to the emails in the Outlook external folder, so that I could use Gmail's search to find only these emails, and then select and delete them. (Apparently only emails in Outlook's inbox, when flagged, are mirrored as starred on the Gmail website.) But the flagged emails in the Outlook external folder didn’t become starred on the Gmail website.
I tried flagging them in the Outlook external folder, hoping the flags would be reflected as starred on the Gmail website, allowing me to delete them as a group. In Outlook they're all together in the external folder, but on the Gmail website they're not together in any way, they're scattered through All Mail, and they have no common attribute to search for. There are too many to delete individually (about 100,000), so I'll need to delete them as a group.
Now I need to delete them on the Gmail server. I started by moving a large set of emails from my Outlook inbox to an Outlook external folder (data file). I need to delete many emails from the Gmail server, but still keep them on my computer. I’m using Gmail through Outlook with IMAP.