[Not gonna take it anymore]

It deletes 1 page at a time and how do I get to the last page so I can start there?

[Cboldt]

-- It deletes 1 page at a time and how do I get to the last page so I can start there? --

I don't know a shortcut to get to the last page. When I've cleared mailboxes at gmail, 100 at a go was good enough. I rarely use gmail as my reader. A cronjob grabs the messages each 10 minutes using fetchmail, and my gmail inbox accumlates at most a few messages in that interval.

[steve86]

how do I get to the last page so I can start there?

You click "oldest", shich should be way over on the right side.

Any time you have to scan through thousands of messages it's going to be a lot of work.

I have no strong opinion on gmail, but the spam filter seems to be really good for me -- rarely does spam ever get through.