Duane Clark wrote: > Herbert Plass wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> when I select a mail, it opens automatically. Since I receive more >> than a lot of spam (as others) I would like to delete these mails >> without opening them. Is the4re a setting in mozilla0.9.8 >> (linux/debian) to turn off the auto-open? > > > > What I am in the habit of doing is to first select and read a legitimate > message. When I am ready to discard it, I then Ctrl-Click on all the > spam messages (or shift-click if they are consecutive messages). This > selects but does not open them. Then I can click delete, and they all > are sent to the trash unread. > >
or just change the view settings... uncheck message under view that way you can select only the messages you want to view
