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I have downloaded thunderbird to supersede MS outlook as the e-mail conduit from my website and, until later in the autumn, im still handling my e-mails

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The long and short of this situation [which has occurred before] is that I have to delete each one of this long list of e-mails ONE AT A TIME. Particularly frustrating in light of my certainty that somewhere, somehow, theres the obvious option to "delete-all". Please enlighten me how to accomplish this. Thank you for yur consideration. WBB Hull

The long and short of this situation [which has occurred before] is that I have to delete each one of this long list of e-mails ONE AT A TIME. Particularly frustrating in light of my certainty that somewhere, somehow, theres the obvious option to "delete-all". Please enlighten me how to accomplish this. Thank you for yur consideration. WBB Hull

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Have you ever deleted multiple files in Explorer at once? Thunderbird works the same way.

Select the first message you want to delete. Then press and hold Shift and select the last message to be deleted. This selects all messages in between the first and the last one. By holding down Ctrl and click on a message you can select or de-select it individually. Then press Del to delete all selected messages.

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Have you ever deleted multiple files in Explorer at once? Thunderbird works the same way.

Select the first message you want to delete. Then press and hold Shift and select the last message to be deleted. This selects all messages in between the first and the last one. By holding down Ctrl and click on a message you can select or de-select it individually. Then press Del to delete all selected messages.