I had more than 1000 unrad mail mesages as unread. It seemed always irritating for me when ever i open my gmail. All were spams and unwanted messages. Anyway i got this tip to make all read. Here it goes………
- Go to your Settings/Filters page and create a new filter.
- In the Has the words field enter “is:unread” (without quotes), and click the Next Step button.
- You’ll get a message warning you that this type of filter won’t be applied to new mail, but that’s OK. Click OK to continue.
- Check the boxes next to Mark as read and Also apply filter to … conversations below.
- Click Create Filter button, and you’re done. You might want to should delete the filter once you finish since it won’t be needing it anymore.
http://www.apejet.org/aaron/blog/2008/06/08/gmail-tip-mark-all-unread-mail-as-read/
Dustin said,
April 27, 2009 at 4:52 am
This was a great tip! I’ve been looking for how to do this forever! Thanks!
sam said,
June 25, 2009 at 7:05 pm
yeah, same. This was a huge help. I had 4000+ emails unread.
Chad said,
August 12, 2009 at 2:18 pm
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have had gmail since it started and I had 1500 emails that were unread and I wanted to start from scratch. This was awesome! Thanks again
Samo said,
October 29, 2009 at 12:06 pm
thank you! this helped me too! i had 2400unread^^
cheers