Easy purging of inboxes

We’ve listened to your feedback. This week we released new functionality to delete all the messages in an inbox.

Purging an inbox can be accomplished in two ways:

  • programmatically, via the REST API DELETE /api/addresses/:email/messages route
  • by clicking the new “Purge Inbox” button

Here’s an example of clicking the Purge Inbox button, instantly recycling over 80 messages:

Why were all the messages not deleted?

Starred messages (savedBy in the REST API) will not be purged.

We recommend un-starring those messages first, then purging the inbox, if you want to completely clear the inbox. Or, use the existing single-message deletion feature will allow you to delete a starred message. There is a button for deleting messages on the inbox page. The REST API route to delete a single message is DELETE /api/addresses/:email/messages/:messageId.