In last week's issue, Charles Arthur recommended deleting spam mail unread. How can you delete an item without first clicking on it, ie "reading" it? Brian Nicol, Tom Fletcher and others
There shouldn't be a problem with "reading" email even with Outlook Express, if it's a current patched version, though I'd generally recommend Thunderbird, The Bat or another email program. However, the simple answer is to turn off the Preview Pane (under View|Layout|Preview Pane). After that, you can scroll down and select any number of messages and delete them at once.
Some people keep their inboxes empty by moving the emails they want to keep to separate folders called Home, Work or whatever. If you do this, you can select all the remaining messages (Ctrl-A) and delete them.
Even better, use free Mailwasher (www.mailwasher.net) software to delete the spam on the server. However, I recommend against using the option to "bounce" spam already received.
