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Google App Script to Delete emails permanently
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function searchMails(searchQuery) { | |
return GmailApp.search(searchQuery, 0, 100); | |
} | |
function moveEmailsToTrash(emailThread) { | |
emailThread.moveToTrash(); | |
} | |
function deleteEmailsPermanently(emailThread) { | |
Gmail.Users.Threads.remove('me', emailThread.getId()); | |
} | |
function moveEmailsToTrash() { | |
const searchQuery = "from:(xyz.com OR abc.com)"; | |
let searchResult = searchMails(searchQuery); | |
let emailInTrashCount = searchResult.length; | |
while(searchResult.length) { | |
console.log('Started moving emails with search query', searchQuery, 'To Trash count is :', searchResult.length); | |
GmailApp.moveThreadsToTrash(searchResult); | |
searchResult = searchMails(searchQuery); | |
emailInTrashCount += searchResult.length; | |
} | |
console.log('Total Emails moved to trash are', emailInTrashCount); | |
// One by one deletion of email | |
// searchResult.forEach((emailThread) => { | |
// console.log('Moving email to trash', ' \nSubject: ', emailThread.getMessages()[0].getSubject()); | |
// emailThread.moveToTrash(); | |
// emailInTrashCount += 1; | |
// }) | |
// console.log('Total Emails moved to trash are: ', emailInTrashCount); | |
} | |
function deleteTrashEmailsPermanently() { | |
const trashMailThreads = GmailApp.getTrashThreads(); | |
console.log('Trash Emails Count is', trashMailThreads.length); | |
console.log('Now Deleting Trash Emails permanently'); | |
trashMailThreads.forEach((trashMailThread) => { | |
console.log('Deleting email with Subject :', trashMailThread.getMessages()[0].getSubject()); | |
deleteEmailsPermanently(trashMailThread); | |
}); | |
} |
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