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How to Delete a Mass Amount in an Email Account

By using webmail you can quickly remove email from an entire folder from your account or you can remove the email complete in the control panel deleting all the files.

Deleting Emails by Folder in Roundcube

  1. Log in to Webmail.
  2. Select Roundcube if not already your default webmail.
  3. Select the folder you wish to remove all the emails from.
  4. At the bottom of the panel under Select choose All.
  5. At the top of the inbox, choose Delete.

Deleting Emails by Folder in Horde

  1. Log in to Webmail.
  2. Select Horde if not already your default webmail.
  3. Select the folder you wish to remove all the emails from.
  4. Click the checkbox next to "From" to select all emails.
  5. Choose Delete from the upper left corner.

Deleting Emails from the Control Panel

To delete all the email in an email account without the use of a webmail account, you can delete the email account and recreate it in your control panel. This deletes all of the emails on the server for that email account.

  1. Log in to your Bluehost cPanel account.
  2. Click the Email tab.
  3. Click View Details to the right of the appropriate email account.
  4. Scroll to the bottom and select Delete.
  5. Select Are you sure?
  6. To recreate the email, select Create an email account.



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