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Stuart
Nov 15, 2012, 3:16:49 PM11/15/12
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I was having a look at setting up Thunderbird on my PC.
I looked at some test emails and they seemed fine so I signed up to a news
group.
I found I couldn't delete any messages. CTRL-X does nothing, the delete
key does nothing and right clicking brings up a menu with delete greyed
out. I even tried dragging a message to the Trash folder but all it does
is make a copy instead of movimg it.
Have I got something wrong?
Deleting emails works fine by any method, how do you delete a news message.
Any other suggestions for an email/news reader that works?
I am aware of Messenger-Pro for windows but any advice involving the
spending of money will have wait till after Christmas.
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Stuart Winsor
Only plain text for emails
http://www.asciiribbon.org
I looked at some test emails and they seemed fine so I signed up to a news
group.
I found I couldn't delete any messages. CTRL-X does nothing, the delete
key does nothing and right clicking brings up a menu with delete greyed
out. I even tried dragging a message to the Trash folder but all it does
is make a copy instead of movimg it.
Have I got something wrong?
Deleting emails works fine by any method, how do you delete a news message.
Any other suggestions for an email/news reader that works?
I am aware of Messenger-Pro for windows but any advice involving the
spending of money will have wait till after Christmas.
--
Stuart Winsor
Only plain text for emails
http://www.asciiribbon.org
M. Wynn
Nov 15, 2012, 7:06:35 PM11/15/12
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"Stuart" <Spa...@argonet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:52ef2bc3...@argonet.co.uk...
> I was having a look at setting up Thunderbird on my PC.
[snipped issues]
> Have I got something wrong?
> Deleting emails works fine by any method, how do you delete a news
> message.
>
> Any other suggestions for an email/news reader that works?
> I am aware of Messenger-Pro for windows but any advice involving the
> spending of money will have wait till after Christmas.
Martin
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts
Nov 15, 2012, 8:48:28 PM11/15/12
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Stuart <Spa...@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> I was having a look at setting up Thunderbird on my PC.
>
> I looked at some test emails and they seemed fine so I signed up to a news
> group.
>
> I found I couldn't delete any messages...
> I was having a look at setting up Thunderbird on my PC.
>
> I looked at some test emails and they seemed fine so I signed up to a news
> group.
>
A good place to ask these questions is the TB support mail list. See:
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-thunderbird
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Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
Email sent to my from-address will be deleted. Instead, please reply
to newsre...@wingsandbeaks.org.uk replacing "aaa" by "284".
David Pitt
Nov 16, 2012, 1:58:22 AM11/16/12
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Stuart, on 15 Nov, wrote:
> I was having a look at setting up Thunderbird on my PC.
>
> I looked at some test emails and they seemed fine so I signed up to a news
> group.
>
> I found I couldn't delete any messages. CTRL-X does nothing, the delete
> key does nothing and right clicking brings up a menu with delete greyed
> out. I even tried dragging a message to the Trash folder but all it does
> is make a copy instead of movimg it.
This any good?
> I was having a look at setting up Thunderbird on my PC.
>
> I looked at some test emails and they seemed fine so I signed up to a news
> group.
>
> I found I couldn't delete any messages. CTRL-X does nothing, the delete
> key does nothing and right clicking brings up a menu with delete greyed
> out. I even tried dragging a message to the Trash folder but all it does
> is make a copy instead of movimg it.
http://ilias.ca/blog/2011/07/deleting-individual-newsgroup-messages-in-thunderbird/
>
> Have I got something wrong?
>
> Deleting emails works fine by any method, how do you delete a news
> message.
>
> Any other suggestions for an email/news reader that works?
>
> I am aware of Messenger-Pro for windows but any advice involving the
> spending of money will have wait till after Christmas.
>
--
Stuart
Nov 20, 2012, 5:31:39 AM11/20/12
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In article <mpro.mdkjd7005...@pittdj.co.uk>,
I am quite bewildered that one should have to go past the "dire warnings"
to set something that should so obviously be there by default.
David Pitt <ne...@pittdj.co.uk> wrote:
> This any good?
> http://ilias.ca/blog/2011/07/deleting-individual-newsgroup-messages-in-thunderbird/
Thanks for that.
> This any good?
> http://ilias.ca/blog/2011/07/deleting-individual-newsgroup-messages-in-thunderbird/
I am quite bewildered that one should have to go past the "dire warnings"
to set something that should so obviously be there by default.
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