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How to direct delete thousands of emails?

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ysu
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I've a folder with system emails, ~4k of them. I want to direct delete these (no bin). When I select 20 or so, it can be done. When I selected ~2000 and hit shift-del - nothing happens. I've waited minutes, but I expected to see some feedback at least, however nothing came.

I'm using thunderbird with exchange connection btw.

Any way out of this?

I've a folder with system emails, ~4k of them. I want to direct delete these (no bin). When I select 20 or so, it can be done. When I selected ~2000 and hit shift-del - nothing happens. I've waited minutes, but I expected to see some feedback at least, however nothing came. I'm using thunderbird with exchange connection btw. Any way out of this?

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ysu
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Oh bugger, it's worse. The whole program is now un-responsive, the calendar is disconnected and I can't delete anything anymore.

Maybe it's working on it in the background...but there's absolutely no indication of what's happening, so I can't be sure. 10+ minutes now. This is ridiculously bad. :(

Matt
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If you are using the owl addon, I suggest you look up their support as there is basically nothing Thunderbird does normally that is invoked using that addon.