actions on mass emails

[bbarnett]

I don't know why this doesn't seem possible. In fact, I've never seen an email client, even the most base, where you couldn't do a 'select all' on a folder, and then delete.

Am I missing something here? Is there no way to do a select all, or a select all on a search, and then do something with the contents?

Essentially, I want to delete all messages from a single mailbox that are before a certain date. Why is this hard?

(note, that I'm just aping my employee's comments)

[uxbod]

Okay from the Advanced client, next to the search bar at the top click Advanced, then when the next choices appear click on Date. Select before or after a certain date and when the email messages are shown select the tick box just below the new icon. You can then select all and delete them.

[mmorse]

So you can take action on lots of mail items at one time, aka 'select/apply to all results' - vote for these RFE's:
Bug 4175 - Permit the selection of all messages in a folder
Bug 16898 - Delete messages based on a search query (like older than 1yr)
Bug 10317 - Advanced Search Actions (supercedes Filters)