OT: Thunderbird email removal
Dave Woyciesjes
woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Wed Mar 25 16:02:33 UTC 2009
Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> I have been using Thunderbird email client for a long time. But this
> morning I learned out how to delete old email in large chunks. I have
> wanted to do it for some time but it didn't seem to work. Here is what
> works.
>
> First select the mail you want to delete. You do this by selecting
> the oldest email, and then go to the newest you want to delete and first
> hold the Shift key which darkens all the email you want to delete. Now
> just click on Delete and watch. It takes a little time but in the lower
> left corner it tells you it is sending email to the trash directory. You
> can look at the Trash and it will show the files you sent there.
>
> Karl
>
>
You _just_ figured this out?
Got another one you don't know about, then... Hold the [Ctrl] key while
selecting messages; instead of the [Shift] key; and you can delete a
number of messages that are _not_ in sequence!
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