How to clean up thousand of facebook notification email in yahoo mail box?

Question

Currently my yahoo mail box is full of facebook notification messages.

I try to create filter to move them to a separate folder but it is not applicable for current messages already in the inbox (see it here)

So my question is how can I clean up those thousands of such mails?

I don't use Yahoo, and this is probably a last-resort ... but a thought is to connect a desktop mail app such as Outlook to your Yahoo account via IMAP - and then do a search/filter + bulk delete.
Where can I turn on IMAP access for Yahoo mail? @DaveClausen
I've just check mail setting and all I can see is the POP access option, no IMAP there @DaveClausen
As mentioned, I don't use Yahoo, but a quick search found this: email.about.com/od/accessingyahoomail/f/…
I think that is for Mail Plus - a paid service of Yahoo Mail

mhoran_psprep · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-01 04:33:57Z

Set your options(Gear symbol/Mail options) to show 200 messages per page.
In the search box enter a key phrase from the emails.
On the left side of the screen you can see a list of items you can use to filter the results (sender, folder, year, status). Sender Facebook might be a good one for you to select.
At the top of the list of emails just to the left of "sort by" there is a small box, check it. Now all the messages on that page are selected.
The buttons for "Delete/Move/Spam/actions" are now activated.
Move them to a folder. You can even create a new folder.
Repeat the last 3 steps.

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