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Unable to delete four messages in Bulk folder.

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Thunderbird front end to a Yahoo email account. I've had it for years and everything else works fine.

About a month ago I found four messages in the Bulk folder that I'm unable to delete. When I click on the message, status bar info is that TB is "loading message", but nothing ever happens. When I attempt to delete a message, the status bar message is "Loading message", then "moving message to Trash" and the message is no longer shown in the folder, but then the message reappears with the message in the status bar something like "header is reloaded."

When I login to Yahoo directly, this folder does not exist.

How to remove these messages permanently?

Thunderbird front end to a Yahoo email account. I've had it for years and everything else works fine. About a month ago I found four messages in the Bulk folder that I'm unable to delete. When I click on the message, status bar info is that TB is "loading message", but nothing ever happens. When I attempt to delete a message, the status bar message is "Loading message", then "moving message to Trash" and the message is no longer shown in the folder, but then the message reappears with the message in the status bar something like "header is reloaded." When I login to Yahoo directly, this folder does not exist. How to remove these messages permanently?
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With my AOL account (based on Yahoo), there is a Spam folder in webmail, but the same folder is named Bulk in TB. See if you can delete the messages from the webmail Spam folder, and see them disappear from Bulk.

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gpfx
gpfx Question owner

Windows 11 Pro, v 10.0.26100 build 26100 Thunderbird 140.1.0esr (64-bit)

gpfx
gpfx Question owner

When I first go into the Bulk folder & click on one of the four messages, Activity Manager states: UID FETCH Server error - Please try again later.

Otherwise in Activity Manager, there are only records of my attempts to delete the four messages: "Moved (1,2,3, 4) messages from Bulk to Trash".

Any other messages in the Bulk Folder I am able to manipulate normally.

sfhowes
sfhowes

Chosen Solution

With my AOL account (based on Yahoo), there is a Spam folder in webmail, but the same folder is named Bulk in TB. See if you can delete the messages from the webmail Spam folder, and see them disappear from Bulk.

gpfx
gpfx Question owner

Bingo! Super quick reply too! THANK YOU!