How to Sort Gmail by Sender (and Delete All Emails From One Sender)

Gmail Help describes two sort options for search results: Most relevant and Most recent. There’s no column you can click to sort your inbox by sender. What Gmail does have is search: it puts every email from one sender on one list, and from there you can delete, archive or filter them together.

See all emails from one sender

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   Step 1: Right-click a message

   On your computer, go to Gmail and right-click a message from the sender. Choose Find emails from [sender name].

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   Step 2: Or search by address

   Type from: and the address in the search bar, for example from:news@example.com, and press Enter. To match only that exact address and not its aliases, Google suggests putting the search in quotes.

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   Step 3: Or use the From chip

   After any search, Gmail shows chips under the search box. From narrows the results to one email address.

You can also look up several senders at once with OR, for example from:amy@example.com OR from:david@example.com.

Delete all emails from one sender on a computer

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   Step 1: Search for the sender

   Use Find emails from or a from: search as above.

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   Step 2: Select the page

   Above your messages, check the Select box. This selects only the conversations on the current page.

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   Step 3: Select everything

   In the notice above your messages, click the link to select all conversations, not just the ones on this page.

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   Step 4: Delete

   Click Delete at the top. The emails move to Trash. To keep them but clear your inbox, click Archive instead.

Delete emails from one sender on Android or iPhone

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   Step 1: Search

   In the Gmail app, tap the search box at the top, enter the sender’s address and tap Search. You can also tap the From chip under the search box.

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   Step 2: Select all

   Touch and hold a message, then tap the box next to Select all at the top left. Google says this selects up to 50 messages.

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   Step 3: Delete and repeat

   Tap Delete. For the next 50, scroll to the top and tap Select all again.

For a sender with thousands of emails, the computer is faster because it can select every conversation that matches the search at once. For whole inboxes or tabs, see how to delete all emails in Gmail.

Handle future emails from a sender with a filter

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   Step 1: Open search options

   On your computer, in the search box at the top of Gmail, click Show search options.

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   Step 2: Enter the sender

   Type the address in From. Click Search first if you want to check which emails match.

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   Step 3: Create the filter

   Click Create filter, choose what it should do (for example archive or delete the emails, or send them to a label), then click Create filter again.

Google’s filter steps are for Gmail on a computer. You can edit or delete them later in Settings › See all settings › Filters and Blocked Addresses.

Which senders fill your inbox?

Gmail doesn’t list all your senders with how many emails each has sent. The closest thing is Manage subscriptions (More › Manage subscriptions on a computer, Menu › Manage subscriptions in the Android and iPhone apps): it lists the senders of mailing lists you’re subscribed to, with the number of emails each sent recently, and clicking a sender’s name shows all their emails. Google says it’s rolling out gradually. To leave those lists, see how to unsubscribe from emails in Gmail.

CleanX

See your Gmail by sender with CleanX

Sign in with Google, open By sender, and CleanX scans your latest 2,000 inbox emails and groups them by sender: each row shows the number of emails and the space they take, largest first. Tick one sender or several and tap Move to Trash; their emails from the scan go to Gmail’s Trash, where you can restore them for 30 days. Older or archived emails aren’t in the list, so use a from: search in Gmail for those. CleanX works with Gmail only.

• Senders grouped with email count and size
• Trash several senders’ emails in one go
• Scanning is free; moving to Trash needs CleanX Pro

See everything CleanX does →

Before you delete a sender’s emails

• Check the list first. A from: search can also match aliases of the address; use quotes to match only the exact address.
• Trash keeps them for 30 days. After that, or after you empty Trash, Google says they can’t be recovered.
• Deleting doesn’t unsubscribe you. New emails keep coming unless you unsubscribe, block the sender or set up a filter.