Windows 10: Delete Email Messages in Windows 10 Mail app

How to: Delete Email Messages in Windows 10 Mail app

How to Delete Email Messages in Windows 10 Mail app


The Mail and Calendar apps included with Windows 10 help you stay up to date on your email, manage your schedule and stay in touch with people you care about the most. Designed for both work and home, these apps help you communicate quickly and focus on whats important across all your accounts. Supports Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular accounts.

You can delete old or unimportant email messages to keep your inbox clean, organized, and recover storage space.

This tutorial will show you how to empty folders and delete email messages in the Mail app for your account in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Delete Single Email Messages in Windows 10 Mail app
• Option Two: To Delete Selected Email Messages in Windows 10 Mail app
• Option Three: To Empty Folder in Windows 10 Mail app

OPTION ONE [/i] To Delete Single Email Messages in Windows 10 Mail app
1. Open the Mail app.

2. While looking at your email messages in your Inbox, Drafts, Sent, or Junk folders, either click/tap on the delete icon for an email or select an email and press the Delete key to send the email message(s) to your Trash folder. (see screenshot below)

*tip You can press and hold the Delete key to quickly delete all email messages in a folder.



3. While looking at your deleted email messages in your Trash folder, either click/tap on the delete icon

for an email or select an email and press the Delete key to permanently delete it. (see screenshot below)

*tip You can press and hold the Delete key to quickly permanently delete all email messages in this folder.



*tip If you deleted an email message by mistake, then you can click/tap on the red undo button at the bottom to restore only the last deleted email message.

If you open another folder in the Mail app or close the Mail app, you will no longer be able to undo the last action.









OPTION TWO [/i] To Delete Selected Email Messages in Windows 10 Mail app
1. Open the Mail app.

2. Open the folder (ex: "Deleted Items") you want to delete email messages in. (see screenshot below)

3. Click/tap on the "Enter selection mode" button, check the messages you want to delete, and click/tap on the Delete button.

*note You can check the top box above the messages to select all messages in the folder.









OPTION THREE [/i] To Empty Folder in Windows 10 Mail app

*note If your email server is configured to allow you to empty the Junk or Trash folder, it will permanently delete all email messages and subfolders in the folder.




1. Open the Mail app.

2. Right click or press and hold on either the Junk or Trash folder for which one you want to empty, and click/tap on Empty folder. (see screenshots below)






3. Click/tap on OK to confirm. (see screenshots below)







That's it,
Shawn


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Win 10 Mail - does it delete messages from the servers?

Hi Tom,

Depending on your email configuration, your emails may or may not be deleted from the server if you delete it from the Windows 10 Mail app. If you're using a POP3 account, this will let you download messages from your server to your email client. Deleting emails
on Windows 10 Mail should not reflect on your server with this account type.

IMAP accounts sync your email client with the server. If a message is deleted from the Windows 10 Mail app and starts to sync with your server, that same message will be deleted from the server.

Should you need further assistance, don't hesitate to post back.

 

not able to delete multiple emails at one time.

Hello Bill,

If you mean for the "Mail" app in Windows 10, then the tutorial below can show you a few options to delete email messages that may help.

Delete Email Messages in Windows 10 Mail app

 

No problem. You will need to right click on the actual "Inbox" folder for the account instead.