Thanks! The SHIFT-DEL key worked! You are my hero now! thanks again. michael
Shiva wrote: > Have you tried to run that message through Composer, or viewing its Source > to look for any hidden HTML, ActiveX, scriptlets etc.? Also, I've the same > problem with a spam mail I was curious about (source) and couldn't just hit > Shift -Del and be done with it because when I opened it, it opened in > another window. > > I have my view set to two on top, body below. I changed to another plain > text email and then closed the bottom window (dragged the little bar in the > middle frame separater all the way down). Then I did a CTRL-ALT-DEL and shut > down the other window, L-clicked once on the offending email to highlight it > in my list, which couldn't open, because, on open, I suspect it ran a > OnFocus or OnOpen or some such. I hit SHIFT-DEL and it was history. > > Can't say as this will work in 6 . I run the older reliable 4.78 I'll wait > til they come out with V7 which means 6 will be pretty bug-free :) And > Microsoft STILL hasn't got DOS working right ;) > > S. > > Michael wrote: > > >>I'm sorry about the duplicate post. It seems that i didn't have this >>newsgroup settings correct. >> >>I received an email on 1/3/02 that i can't seem to delete. Just the one >> email, well now there are two, as someone replied to that email and >>the reply can't be deleted either. Are there any suggestions? Here's >>what i've tried already. I've right clicked and and tried using that >>delete method. I've highlighted and tried the delete button. When i >>try, the netscape symbol at the top right of the messenger window does >>the little star tracing "n" thing and the scrollbar at the bottom does >>it's diagonal movement thing and it just sits there. I get the message >>at the bottom that says, "moving 1 of 1 messages to trash" but it never >>moves. I've been trying to get rid of it since i received it. I'm >>running netscape 6.1 and mozilla 5.0. I do have anti-virus software >>checking messages so i know it's not a virus thing. The email does not >>have any attachments other than the fact that the entire email seems to >>be a link. This is the only email that i've ever had this problem with. >> I've also tried using "ctrl" and highlighting several emails with >>this one at the same time to delete. Same problem exists. Any >>assistance would be greatly appreciated it. Again. there has been no >>problem deleting other emails. everything else is working fine. >> >>thanks >>michael >> >>one other thing that i have noticed. After trying to delete the email. >> If if shut down messenger and communicator, then do a ctrl, alt, >>del...there's another copy of communicator running blind. >> >
