Auto-Deleting Emails in Gmail

Gmail is the world’s most popular email provider. The service comes by default on all Android devices. Email experience in 2020 isn’t limited to receiving emails from your business company or bank. Consumers today receive marketing emails, newsletters and promotional offers from dozens of email providers. Filtering important emails can be confusing and you may need to delete some spam. But the process can be time consuming and inconvenient. Fortunately, Gmail lets you delete emails automatically.

There are several reasons to delete spam in Gmail. First, you can find relevant emails quickly and easily by keeping your inbox clean. Google counts Gmail space against the base 15GB of Google Drive storage. In a few years, your Gmail inbox will be filled with thousands of emails taking up huge amounts of Gmail storage. If you exceed 15GB of storage, you must choose Google One subscription plans.

In this post, we’ll talk about how to automatically delete emails in Gmail and cover other tricks to improve your Gmail experience. Lets start.

Auto-Deleting Emails in Gmail

Most newsletters and marketing companies offer a small Unsubscribe button to unsubscribe from their mailing lists. However, the implementation is time consuming as you have to go to every company email, find that little unsubscribe button, and confirm the action from another window. We have an even better solution. Use Gmail filters.

Gmail offers filters to automatically manage incoming email. You can create a set of rules for email organization using filters. Here we will create a filter to automatically delete emails from Gmail. Follow the steps below.

Stage 1: Open Gmail on the web and sign in using your Google account credentials.

Step 2: On the Gmail Inbox screen, tap the ‘Settings’ icon in the upper right corner.

Stage 3: From the Gmail Settings screen, go to the Filters and Blocked Addresses tab.

Step 4: Here you will see the list of filters you have created. Scroll down to the bottom screen and select ‘Create new filter’.

Step 5: Enter the email address you want to automatically delete in the future, ignore the other options and select Create Filter at the bottom.

Step 6: You can select a number of options from the menu below. Select the Delete option since we are talking about the auto-delete functionality.

Step 7: Tap on Create filter at the bottom.

You can create as many filters as you want. Gmail automatically deletes these incoming emails from added email addresses.

Gmail also lets you create a filter directly from the email details menu. Open any email you want to automatically delete, tap the three-dot menu and select Filter messages like this option. The filter menu will open and from here you can create a filter for the email address.

Use Email Studio Add-on in Gmail

There is a limitation in Gmail filters. It only works on new incoming emails. You can’t set a filter in Gmail that will automatically delete all old newsletters and promotional emails from your mailbox. Or a separate filter that will apply a different label to emails after a certain number of days and mark them as read. Enter a third-party Gmail add-on called Email Studio.

Email Studio is a Gmail add-on that helps you keep your inbox clean and tidy with its auto-clean function. Follow the steps below to set up the service from scratch.

Stage 1: Download and install the Email Studio plugin using the download link below.

Download Email Studio

Step 2: You will find the add-on right next to the Gmail home screen.

Stage 3: Tap on Email Studio and tap on the Email Cleanup option.

Step 4: Email Studio will ask for a number of permissions to work properly with your Gmail Inbox. Let them.

Step 5: The plugin will open a separate window for you to create filters.

Step 6: Email Studio offers a number of options. Here we will talk about the Email Cleanup function. Go to the Clear menu at the top.

The interface is similar to Gmail Filters, but the functionality is more advanced. You can create the rule name, add the Email address, and then select the Received Email timeline.

After adding the necessary details, select the action you want Email Studio to take. Select ‘Send to Trash’ and save the filter.

For example, in the screenshot above, I created a filter to send email from a specific email address to the trash. Gmail automatically deletes the trash after 30 days.

Unclutter your Gmail Inbox

Using the built-in Gmail filters, you can automatically delete all those random incoming emails in your inbox. If you want to automatically delete existing emails, go ahead and try Email Studio. The app is much better than Google’s official solution.

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