Alternatively, you may also simply delete the entire contents of the Trash or you can ignore them and leave them to be deleted automatically after your set number of days to leave items in the Trash (if not set to ‘Never’). if ‘All’ folders are selected for Searching, when you hit ‘Delete’, the list of results will not disappear the messages will simply be moved to the Trash folder a second select and delete operation is required to remove them permanently from the Trash. be sure your search is either ‘All’ (folders), or just the Inbox, or whatever folder(s) you wish to Target in the Toolbar immediately above your viewer pane. Press Command-F to enter the search field in the upper right corner of the main Mail Browser window type ‘google alerts’, and select from the most appropriate token-type suggested below (e.g., ‘Subject Contains…’) the in the resulting search results, verify that the list meets your criteria the simply select all (Command-A), then hit the ‘Delete’ key.

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