How to Delete All Emails From One Sender in Gmail

Quick answer: To delete every email from a specific sender in Gmail, type from:sender@example.com in the search bar and press Enter. Click the select-all checkbox, click "Select all conversations that match this search", then press the trash icon. All their emails are deleted at once. Empty Trash to reclaim storage. You can also search by name, like from:amazon.

Step by step (desktop / browser)

1. Open Gmail in a web browser.
2. In the search bar, type the sender's address or name:

   from:newsletter@example.com
   

   or simply:

   from:amazon
   

3. Press Enter to see every email from that sender.
4. Click the checkbox at the top-left to select the visible emails.
5. Click "Select all conversations that match this search" in the banner that appears.
6. Click the trash icon to delete them all.
7. Open Trash then "Empty Trash now" to actually free the storage.

That's it. Thousands of emails from one sender, gone in seconds.

Helpful variations

Only old emails from a sender (keep recent ones):

from:sender@example.com older_than:1y

A sender's emails with large attachments:

from:sender@example.com larger:5M

Two or more senders at once:

from:a@example.com OR from:b@example.com

How to do it on mobile

The Gmail app makes this harder. There's no "select all matching" option, so you can only delete a screenful at a time. Two options:

• Search from:sender, then select and delete in batches (tedious for big senders).
• Open Gmail in your phone's browser (or use MailMop in your mobile browser) to get desktop-style bulk deletion.

Delete from many senders at once (the fast way)

If one sender is clogging your inbox, there are usually a dozen more behind it. Gmail makes you hunt them down one search at a time.

MailMop takes a different approach. It analyzes your whole inbox in your browser and shows every sender ranked by how many emails they've sent. You can:

• See your biggest senders instantly (no guessing who to search for)
• Delete all email from a sender in one click
• Select several senders and clear them together
• Unsubscribe or block senders so they stop emailing you

It's the same result as the from: search, but across your entire inbox at once, and your email never leaves your browser. MailMop users have deleted over 2 million emails this way.

Stop the sender from coming back

Deleting clears the past. It doesn't stop the future. After deleting:

• Unsubscribe if it's a newsletter. See how to unsubscribe from Gmail emails.
• Block the sender: open an email, then the three-dot menu, then Block [sender]. Their future email goes straight to spam.
• Create a filter to auto-delete or archive future mail from that address (Settings then Filters then Create).

Key takeaways

• The from: search operator plus "Select all conversations that match this search" deletes every email from a sender in two clicks.
• This only works fully on desktop or browser, not the Gmail app.
• Empty Trash afterward to reclaim storage.
• To clear many senders fast, or to delete, unsubscribe, and block in one place, MailMop ranks every sender in your inbox so you can clean up in minutes.

Try MailMop free and clear out your noisiest senders today.