gmail - I can't select all and mark all emails read

[toddh]

I get a lot of junk mail and want to be able to mark all my previous emails read without checking them individually from my phone. Is there a way of marking all emails read? It seems that there is not a "select all" feature.


todd

[paul roberts]

i think it's easier to do that on the regular gmail website then sync your phone.

[Skoutro]

Yeah, there really isn't a way to select all you mail at once unless you do so from your actual computer. Fortunately, you don't have to actually open each e-mail for it to be marked as "read". You might want to start counting some of your junk-mail as spam. After a few times they'll appear in your Spam folder and you wont get so many gmail notifications for junkmail.

[Linzoid]

I have a gmail account because I had to open one to get a Droid. I've used Charter for the last 10 years and my old Blackberry always "pushed" my Charter email to me immediately. I'm now regularly getting my Charter emails as long as 8 hours after they were sent because Google won't "push" anything but gmail. I don't like being blackmailed into using gmail but this has become intolerable. Also, when I'm on the road and have no access to my computer to erase my emails, my Droid keeps sending the same trashed emails to me over and over again. I end up with five or six copies of the same email in my trash folder, which I then have to delete one-by-one since there is no "select all" option (but there is a "de-select all"...jeez...) Is there a third-party app or solution to this ridiculous time-eater? thanks

[Linzoid]

this is not spam. I'm a newbie.

[Skoutro]

Welcome to Android Community! Have you tried setting up the stock android email client so your charter can push directly to your phone? That way you won't have gmail as the "middle-man" if you don't want to.

[remoonsk]

This took me a while to figure out, so I am writing down here to help me remember later. It may also be useful if you are playing with Gmail at all (BTW, the spam filtering on Gmail is very good).
To mark all mail as read:-

• In the search box, type "is:unread"
• In the select area press "All"
• A link will appear that says "Select all conversations that match this search", press it
• From the drop down, select "Mark All as Read".

Took me a while to do something that is usually option away on a context menu in most rich client mail reading applications, but this is mainly because I had thousands of unread mails to mark and so that went off the page.

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