Click the checkbox at the top left corner of the search results to select every message on the page.That should collect only messages on the same list – for instance, marketing updates but not purchase receipts. If the organization involved has you on multiple lists, select a message you know you don’t want, click the vertical ellipsis above it, select “Filter messages like these,” and in the filter dialog, click the blue Search button.If it’s a mailing list you want to escape (as opposed to a short-shelf-life list with content you read once), open it to click its unsubscribe link. Search for the sender or subject you want gone and select a message matching what you had in mind.Or maybe it’s already obvious which attention-starved companies, nonprofit groups or political campaigns make it up in volume.Įither way, once you identify your major mail offenders, you will want to return to Gmail’s website, which functions better than its apps for zapping messages in bulk. To do that, you’ll have to synchronize Gmail to a desktop mail app like what Apple includes in macOS and Microsoft bundles with Windows. Neither Gmail’s web interface nor its Android and iOS apps even let you sort messages by sender, which could suggest the more prolific correspondents. You can use special queries to find bulkier messages (“larger:10m” locates those bigger than 10 megabytes), but Google PR confirmed that you can’t ask Gmail to rank the mailing lists that put the biggest dent in your quota. Gmail’s inbox-management tools still assume that storage isn’t as big a problem as search. Even plain-text messages add up for those who opened a Gmail account early after the service debuted in 2004 with the pitch “Don't throw anything away.” In my own Google account, Google Photos amounts to half of my combined Drive and Gmail storage.

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