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Sean Endicott

How I deleted 10,767 emails in one week with Outlook

Deleted emails in Microsoft Outlook.

Last week I looked at my Outlook inbox and noticed I had thousands of messages saved. They were all read emails, but they sat in my inbox and mocked me as part of an ever-increasing count.

While I look at emails that come into my inbox, I rarely delete them. If an email is important, I tell myself I need to save it in case I need it later. If an email is not important, I just forget about it.

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