[OT] Deleting Threads in Thunderbird

[Justin Willmert]

Click on the bubble icon in the list. It'll select all of the messages 
and then you can press delete to delete the messages (actually gets sent 
to Trash; Press Shift + Delete to delete permenantly)

Hope that helps,
Justin

Matt Morgan wrote:
> On 8/8/05, Michael Yep <myep at remotelink.com> wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone know if there is a shortcut key to delete an entire thread
>>(when using thread view) in Mozilla Thunderbird ?
> 
> 
> The only quick way I know of is shift-clicking to mutiple select all
> the messages in the thread, and then deleting. A "delete entire
> thread" command might be there somewhere, I have to admit. I have
> never looked for one, since shift-clicking is easy.
> 
> What I wish I had in T-Bird is filtering based on Thread, so that I
> could say "ignore/delete future messages in this Thread." But I heard
> that Thunderbird used to have that feature, and it never worked. Maybe
> message-ids are not reliable in some way.
>