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Ipad Air Retina 1000's of emails
phonefax
14-05-2014
My family bought me an Ipad Air Retina for my 70th birthday which I am very happy about but I have a problem in so far as when I set the Ipad up for emails, it has downloaded over 6000 emails from my Virgin Media server. I and my family have looked at everything on the I pad to delete them but it appears that the only way to do it is one at a a time with the edit function.

Is there any way I can delele them all, as I still have them on my laptop. I realise its my own fault for not deleting them when read on my server but its something I have never done.

In desperation I have deleted my email accounts from my Ipad but that means I am not using it as much as I would like.

Thank you
iGeek2014
14-05-2014
Originally Posted by phonefax:
“My family bought me an Ipad Air Retina for my 70th birthday which I am very happy about but I have a problem in so far as when I set the Ipad up for emails, it has downloaded over 6000 emails from my Virgin Media server. I and my family have looked at everything on the I pad to delete them but it appears that the only way to do it is one at a a time with the edit function.

Is there any way I can delele them all, as I still have them on my laptop. I realise its my own fault for not deleting them when read on my server but its something I have never done.

In desperation I have deleted my email accounts from my Ipad but that means I am not using it as much as I would like.

Thank you”

Hello,

I wasn't sure if the Mail app for iPad allowed multiple deletion; a look on Google brought this up. I've just tried it on my iPhone and it works.

Hope it helps; enjoy your new Air
phonefax
14-05-2014
Originally Posted by iGeek2014:
“Hello,

I wasn't sure if the Mail app for iPad allowed multiple deletion; a look on Google brought this up. I've just tried it on my iPhone and it works.

Hope it helps; enjoy your new Air ”

Thanks for the reply,,,am I being stupid or did you intend to attach a link to the mail app or is that what its called,,,,Mail App..
Thanks for your patience..
iGeek2014
15-05-2014
Originally Posted by phonefax:
“Thanks for the reply,,,am I being stupid or did you intend to attach a link to the mail app or is that what its called,,,,Mail App..
Thanks for your patience..”

No, you aren't being stupid, I didn't make myself clear!

The link I've posted tells you how to delete all of your emails from your iPad.
Stig
15-05-2014
Originally Posted by iGeek2014:
“No, you aren't being stupid, I didn't make myself clear!

The link I've posted tells you how to delete all of your emails from your iPad.”

There is no link.
albertd
15-05-2014
Originally Posted by phonefax:
“Is there any way I can delele them all, as I still have them on my laptop. I realise its my own fault for not deleting them when read on my server but its something I have never done.”

If you are quite sure that they are stored on your laptop's hard disk (and preferably backed up somewhere else), then there should be nothing to stop you deleting the whole lot from the server and then you should only see new ones on the iPad.

If the mail system is running in IMAP rather than POP, then deleting the mails from the server should automatically remove them from the iPad.

It might take a bit of time to do the deleting (though it would only be the once), but it would probably be the best solution and then you would be back to using the iPad as you want to.
iGeek2014
16-05-2014
Oops!

I apologise; I didn't paste the link. Sorry!!

Here it is!

http://www.conferencesthatwork.com/i...d-in-one-step/
zantarous
17-05-2014
He is not running IMAP, this sounds exactly like a POP3 issue, he has been downloading the emails on his laptop for years (I assume either that or he is a very busy chap to deal with 6000 emails) and all that time when deleting emails he has only been deleting of his laptop and not the server. If it was IMAP then it would have been replicating on the client and the server.
TheBigM
17-05-2014
Doesn't Virgin use a branded version of GMail?

The best thing OP is to delete your email account (as you have done) on both your PC and iPad and make sure they are set up as IMAP accounts rather than POP accounts. This way, any changes on one will synchronise with the other.

You will be able to log in to your virgin email via web browser and delete all the emails from there.

Personally, I just don't bother deleting them - they don't take up that much space. Just delete new ones as needed going forward.
dragonrapide
19-05-2014
I have had a similar problem with my Iphone4. The problem is solved by logging in to your Virgin account on-line and going to your emails again on-line via virgin.com. When you have all your e-mails in view delete them all. You can select all and get shot of them. There are usually pages and pages to get rid of. If you get a new device or have to re-set your ipad it will download every email that you have left on the server regardless of if you have read it or not.

I learnt my lesson and now log into virgin.com regularly and delete all the emails held there. This will not delete them from your Ipad.

Hope this helps.
zantarous
20-05-2014
Follow this set up http://help.virginmedia.com/system/s...spart=T_head21

and there will be no need to log into VM mail to delete email, it is very important to make sure you set the account up as IMAP.
phonefax
20-05-2014
Originally Posted by zantarous:
“Follow this set up http://help.virginmedia.com/system/s...spart=T_head21

and there will be no need to log into VM mail to delete email, it is very important to make sure you set the account up as IMAP.”

Thanks for the reply, I have had a look at my account but cant find the IMAP bit.

What difference will Imap make to my emails on the laptop and Ipad, sorry to be sounding a little stupid but I dont understand the terminology
Stig
21-05-2014
Originally Posted by phonefax:
“Thanks for the reply, I have had a look at my account but cant find the IMAP bit.

What difference will Imap make to my emails on the laptop and Ipad, sorry to be sounding a little stupid but I dont understand the terminology”

IMAP keeps a copy of all the mails on the Server, and just downloads copies of new mail to your device. That way you have identical views of your email whichever device you read them on. With POP, you would end up downloading the email on to whatever device you use first, so the mail would be missing from the server and not seen on any other device.

Short version: change all your PCs and devices to use IMAP for email.
zantarous
22-05-2014
Originally Posted by phonefax:
“Thanks for the reply, I have had a look at my account but cant find the IMAP bit.

What difference will Imap make to my emails on the laptop and Ipad, sorry to be sounding a little stupid but I dont understand the terminology”

Delete the account on all your devices and set it up with the instructions in the link I posted. Make sure you back up any emails you want to keep, once done you will get a replicated view on all devices, so if you read a email on one it shows up read read on another devices, if you delete one it will delete from all other devices including the server.
alanwarwic
22-05-2014
Originally Posted by Stig:
“I... With POP, you would end up downloading the email on to whatever device you use first, so the mail would be missing from the server and not seen on any other device...”

Not if you choose to 'leave messages on server'.

But Imap is convenient for multi devices for someone with lots of mail.
zantarous
22-05-2014
But that is useless as over the years you end up with thousands of emails you had either dealt with or deleted, POP3 is old protocol which was fine when email was a novelty and you only had access from one machine at home.
alanwarwic
24-05-2014
Why add such tripe?
Come on zantarous, at least know what you are talking about.

Or just maybe you are crippled by yet another example of the IOS system inventing the 'square wheel'.
soulboy77
24-05-2014
Originally Posted by zantarous:
“But that is useless as over the years you end up with thousands of emails you had either dealt with or deleted, POP3 is old protocol which was fine when email was a novelty and you only had access from one machine at home.”

More a case of users not understanding their email settings or not deleting emails. I know I had to educate my family on the concept of deleting emails strange as it seems..
zantarous
24-05-2014
Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“Why add such tripe?
Come on zantarous, at least know what you are talking about.

Or just maybe you are crippled by yet another example of the IOS system inventing the 'square wheel'.”

What part of what i posted was tripe?
alanwarwic
24-05-2014
Small apology.I thought you were erring a 2nd time zantarous but the first error was from stig.

Originally Posted by zantarous:
“But that is useless as over the years you end up with thousands of emails you had either dealt with or deleted, POP3 is old protocol which was fine when email was a novelty and you only had access from one machine at home.”

But the whole of it is wrong apart from 'pop is old'. But so what, Imap is old.
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