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> Gmail is blazingly fast - I've not seen it stall or choke or any tasks

Try to delete a few thousand messages at a time, and see it not just choke, but cause timeouts or 500 errors when you try to reload the inbox in another tab.

At least it consistently does this for me over several accounts, both regular Gmail and paid apps accounts.

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Look, fair call, I've never tried to delete thousands of messages in one go.

What kind of workflow do you have where you need to delete a few thousand messages, and how often does that happen?

Testing/QA accounts are one use-case where you can get a ton of mail.

Server notifications gone berserk. Cleaning up old tags, seeing as Gmail is so very fond of encouraging archival instead of deletion.

I've developed habits of using mail for all kinds of notifications because it tends to work with other services, and it mostly works with Gmail too, exception deletion it a totally pathological case. All they'd needed to do would be to queue large operations in the background...

I have deleted thousands of google group messages and never found any problem. Maybe it is just for you.

Google groups is entirely different to Gmail in behaviour.

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