LayZeeDK

klaaspieter

From time to time, Musk will send out an e-mail to the entire company to enforce a new policy or let them know about something that's bothering him. One of the more famous e-mails arrived in May 2010 with the subject line: Acronyms Seriously Suck:

There is a creeping tendency to use made up acronyms at SpaceX. Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important. Individually, a few acronyms here and there may not seem so bad, but if a thousand people are making these up, over time the result will be a huge glossary that we have to issue to new employees. No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don't want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees.

That needs to stop immediately or I will take drastic action - I have given enough warning over the years. Unless an acronym is approved by me, it should not enter the SpaceX glossary.

DonRichards

How to delete old emails in Gmail

This script will delete emails old than 30 days with a specified label.

Focussing on emails that are from a mailing list I signed up for. I used Gmails filters to move specific email to a label called "Mailing List". You can set the label to "inbox" if you'd like but this would delete everything in your inbox older than 30 days.

Move emails to a "Mailing List" label

To protect your inbox I suggest moving emails you know are safe to delete to a new label.

• From your inbox click the checkbox next to the email > More > "Filter Messages Like this"
• Select how this filter selects the email (either From, Subject, To, etc)

kstudnik

// XPath CheatSheet
// To test XPath in your Chrome Debugger: $x('/html/body')
// http://www.jittuu.com/2012/2/14/Testing-XPath-In-Chrome/


// 0. XPath Examples.
// More: http://xpath.alephzarro.com/content/cheatsheet.html


'//hr[@class="edge" and position()=1]'                // every first hr of 'edge' class

jamesramsay

Gmail: delete old emails automatically

Automatically deletes old emails that match the specified label.

Get started

• Create a new Google Apps Script at https://script.google.com
• Overwrite the placeholder with the javascript below
• Update the following constants:
• LABEL_TO_DELETE: the label that should be have old messages deleted

gene1wood

/*
This script, when used with Google Apps Scripts, will delete 400 emails and
can be triggered to run every few minutes without user interaction enabling you
to bulk delete email in Gmail without getting the #793 error from Gmail.

Google returns a maximum of 500 email threads in a single API call. 
This script fetches 400 threads in case 500 threads is causing timeouts

Configure the search query in the code below to match the type of emails
you want to delete

LeCoupa

// XPath CheatSheet
// To test XPath in your Chrome Debugger: $x('/html/body')
// http://www.jittuu.com/2012/2/14/Testing-XPath-In-Chrome/


// 0. XPath Examples.
// More: http://xpath.alephzarro.com/content/cheatsheet.html


'//hr[@class="edge" and position()=1]'                // every first hr of 'edge' class