Is there a quick way other than pressing down the Shift key and then use the track ball to select and delete emails?

go to the top most date, hit menu>delete all prior

You can also press "t" to get to the top quicker as well

Now you tell me! This will come in helpful. Thank you.

You can also do a search and then delete only the results of the search. So if you get server status e-mails every hour you can search for those and delete only those.

Thanks for the tip to "Delete Prior". I was always wondering what that one was for! The "T" shortcut was helpful too.

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