I had over 700 unread messages in my gMail inbox… and there doesn’t actually seem like any great way of filtering them out…
Then I discovered the advanced search help!
And you can just paste
is:unread
into the search box and tadaa! Unread messages appear… well you’d have to hit search as well. Of course if you just want to delete those pesky unread messages, then you’ll have to do it 20 at a time…
You can instead create a filter, using the “is” command will raise a warning that it will never match incoming mail, but that is ok. I want to delete the 500 or so messages that I just let slip through. Paste the command into the “Has the words:” box.
Then click next, a warning will appear. Ignore it and then you can do whatever you want to the messages that exist already (if you click apply to the messages below).
WARNING: If you keep this filter on, gmail will delete all of your incoming messages! And you won’t notice.
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I discovered that keeping this filter active was not a good idea! All my new mail went into trash… which sometimes isn’t so bad.