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Feeltr is a software that reinvents your connection to the web, making it lighter, more secure and less CO2 emitting. The Feeltr community shares tips and tricks to further reduce the carbon emissions of various everyday computing solutions.

How to reduce the CO2 emissions of your Gmail account?

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The easiest and most effective way to reduce the amount of CO2 emitted by your Gmail account is to delete old emails. Indeed, storing these emails consumes resources and therefore emits CO2. HOW TO DELETE OLD EMAILS IN GMAIL ?   To do this, we will enter a query in the search engine. I will ask to find the emails older than 6 years: older_than:6y Then just select all the emails, extend the selection to all the emails and delete them. For your information, the function: newer_than: also exists. As you can see, you can define ages in: Year y Month m Days d HOW TO DELETE LARGE ATTACHMENTS IN GMAIL ? Same technique; we will use the search engine of Gmail to find the heavy emails, select them, extend the selection, then delete them. The query here, will select the emails whose size is greater than 10 mega: size:10000000 FINALLY, EMPTY THE RECYCLE GARBAGE CAN! The two previous operations did not delete your emails; they placed the emails in the Trash. You must then go to the trash, select a