Empty my Yahoo.com inbox, how? iPad.

[USMCM16A2]

Can anyone help me with emptying my Yahoo inbox? A2

[ENTHUSIAST]

Check mark a whole page delete and then repeat it might take a while but faster than one at a time.

[USMCM16A2]

Enthusiast,


It’s on my iPad. I can do it one at a time, but no more than one at a time. A2

[Master_Prestige]

You should link your yahoo to the mail app and delete it all from there.

[etwinam]

Use a friend's real laptop and then log out when you're done, then go home sell your Ipad and get a Gmail account.

jk..... well not really.

[SkyHawk]

Enthusiast,


It’s on my iPad. I can do it one at a time, but no more than one at a time. A2

Do you use the Yahoo app on your phone, or the native Apple mail app? I know with the Yahoo mail app on iPad you can select a month at a time by scrolling down a bit and choosing the little circle next to the month name.

One thing you could do is access your mailbox once via POP (with Outlook for instance) and it will pull all the mail and delete them if you select the option to delete them. Or you could log in to the pop port with OpenSSL and issue the delete command (DELE 1) repeatedly, while incrementing the number with a script.

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/pop-access-settings-instructions-yahoo-mail-sln4724.html

You could also try mail2web which will let you delete everything without setting up a mail client or scripting, it should work against the Yahoo POP server if you pick POP and SSL

https://www.mail2web.com/cgi-bin/login.asp?lid=0&il=0

I don’t know if it still works. You might change your Yahoo mail password after using it.

For the server name try pop.mail.yahoo.com or pop.mail.yahoo.com:995

[Robotron2k84]

Why deal with POP3 when IMAP is running:

Allow less secure (although still secure) logins:

https://blog.context.io/yahoos-less-secure-app-setting-2203fcef54f

Log in with OpenSSL

openssl s_client -connect imap.mail.yahoo.com:993

. login USERNAME PASSWORD

. select INBOX

. store 1:* +FLAGS \Deleted

. expunge

. logout

(Not responsible if you delete more than you want, this is simply an example)

[SkyHawk]

If they offer free access to IMAP that is easier, no scripting. Just be sure you really want to nuke the inbox