Have a folder on my yahoo webmail account with >100K emails accumulated over time. The emails are of no lasting value
I just received a notification (via a banner on… (read more)
Have a folder on my yahoo webmail account with >100K emails accumulated over time. The emails are of no lasting value
I just received a notification (via a banner on yahoo webmail when I log in) that my storage is full (never seen this before, but not surprised that Yahoo would be looking for "additional storage" revenue - not interested.)
I'm attempting to delete the emails in this (large) folder (which are of no lasting value), so far with no success.
The initial problem is that yahoo's functions to expunge (permanently remove) the emails (after moving them to their trash folder) does not work (either 0% progress overnight, or progressing 0-100% progress, in either case all of the emails remain in their trash folder and I continue to be notified (by the banner at sign-in) that email storage is full (and I do not wish to purchase any additional storage from yahoo.) As this is a non-premium yahoo account, no support exists.
It appears that yahoo webmail does not expose their trash folder via imap (it appears empty on imap view). Thunderbird "empty trash" on the hosted Trash folder shows no contents and completes immediately with "emptied trash".
I've now tried moving emails from yahoo's trash folder to another (new) folder on yahoo webmail, then using thunderbird imap to move those emails from yahoo to a local folder. My expectation was that "move" means gone from server, present on client. That appears not to be the case.
While this step does create a local copy, a copy appears to be left in yahoo's trash folder which still cannot be removed, so the core problem (of their impact on yahoo webmail storage) is unresolved.
I understand that "expunge" exists in IMAP but I don't see how this can be used with Thunderbird.
As I'm somewhat going in circles trying to solve this problem, I'm reaching out here for advice.
Thanks