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How to bulk delete old emails?
You're better off setting a retention policy, which will automatically delete older messages or move them to the Online Archive (if such is enabled). Check with your IT support folks though, as we cannot know what kind of policies are configured in your organization.
If you plan to do thing via the client, you can create a search for messages received prior a given date (for example Received<06/15/2017), then select all > delete all.
VasilMichevThanks for the reply!
However, how do I do the search!? I only have a search within the mailbox and it doesn't have any advanced options for the search - just a simple text search.
And what is the Retention Policy - will it work retroactively?
MattOHC185 I gave you example above on how you can do the search, just change the date as needed.
- Hi Vasil, thanks but this dodn't work. I used your suggestion in the Search box on both OWA and Outlook Desktop and it just says Search didn't yield any results.
- Hi, I’m on phone and cannot verify right now but I thought they fixed the ”clean-up tool” by now. Try using the old OWA interface as I think you can bulk delete there. See this conversation for a direct link, use a InPrivate/Incognito window
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/office-365/how-to-cleanup-storage-on-new-o365-outlook-interface/m-p/1435584ChristianBergstromThanks, I have just tried that - essentially inserting '?path=/classic' after the owa URL, but that didn't actually get me to the classic interface in OWA, it seemed to make no difference at all 😞
