Deleting Emails From Sent Folder.

[ferlew]

Can anyone please tell me, is it possible to delete emails sent to a particular person only, by name, from the sent folder.

[RATTER15]

I dont see why not, I think it would depend on what email system you are using?

[woofgang]

should be, on a mac, you can search any folder by to or from, then bunch them all together and delete, move or what you will

[bhg481]

Can't you sort the folder by recipient then just shift-click on the first and last to the particular recipient and delete?

[Tilly2]

You should be able to view your sent folder and then click on, and delete, the email.

[bibblebub]

clicking on the column headings (not the emails themselves) usually sorts the entries in a list so that they are ordered according to the entries in that field - alphabetically, numerically or chronologically depending on the type of field; click again and the order is reversed

[ferlew]

By way of explanation, this is someone who I was working on a commission for, about 18 months ago. He was very picky and wanted almost daily emails on progress.
Thing is, he is taking up about 80% of my sent folder, and as the business is now concluded - I would like shut of them all.
Forgot to say..
Mac OS X Yosemite, using firefox, BT/Yahoo mail.

[Buenchico]

The way that Sent folders are organised varies between email clients (such as Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail, etc) and the multitude of web-based services available (such as Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo, GMX, etc). Since you've not told us what you're using it's hard to provide a definitive answer. However the following might help.

In many cases clicking on the 'To' column header (in your Sent folder) will put your emails into order by name. That should work with any email client (such as Outlook Express) but with some web-based services you have to use a drop-down 'Sort by' menu to get your sent emails into name order.

Once you've done that you'll have all of the relevant emails grouped together in a block. You now need to select the whole of that block. With most email clients (Outlook Express, etc) you can do that by clicking on the first email in the block and holding the Shift key down while clicking on the last one in the block. With web-based services (where you need to place a tick next to each email, rather than highlight it) you might be able to do something similar by placing the first tick and holding the Shift key down while placing the last tick; however you might need to tick each email individually.

Now that you've got the whole block of emails selected you simply need to use the 'Delete' function. With email clients (such as Outlook Express) you normally do that by right-clicking on any email in the block and selecting 'Delete'. With web-based services there will be a Delete button anyway.

[ferlew]

Many thanks all, just off to give it a go (must try and take off my xmas hat too).

[woofgang]

Mac is easy, just go into sent, sort by "To" and then delete those suckers. Depending on your mail settings, whether you told mail to leave a copy on the server and when you told mail that you want them deleted, you may need to go onto Bt mail directly and also delete them there.