100's of Emails!!

[bossychloe]

Hi, Have not use a certain email account for some time but I wish to re-use it, however, when I log on to my email account and try to collect incoming mail it states I have 256 emails (most probably spam!) - how on earth do I delete these without waiting for them to download...
Any suggestions gratefully received, thank you x

[henrys]

install firefox
that should solve ur prob
it did for me

[fo3nix]

henrys: firefox has nothing to do with spam!

bossychloe: what sort of email is it? If you access it via Outlook Express then you can use mailwasher to grab the spam for you.

[Postdog]

Can't you just check them online and delete what you want?

[bossychloe]

Thank you for answering so quickly... I do access via Outlook Express mail server is demon - but unfortunately for everyone concerned I am computer illiterate therefore have no idea what a mailwasher is!! Sorry.

[Buenchico]

Go to Demon's web mail service here:
https://web.mail.demon.net/
(That link won't be clickable because it's 'https' and not 'http'. Just copy and paste it - or simply type it - into your browser's address bar).

Enter the relevant details to access your mail via the web. (Set 'mails per page' to 50). You'll be taken to a page showing the headers for the first 50 of those mails. (Only the headers will be downloaded, not the full mails). At this point, I'm guessing (because I don't use Demon) but there will almost certainly be a box marked 'Select all'. Click this and then click 'Delete' or 'Send to trash'. You'll then be presented with the next 50 mails. Repeat the process until you've deleted all of the mail and then click 'Log Out'.

Actually, I wouldn't worry too much about simply downloading all of the mail to Outlook Express and then deleting them. It will take a short while but it shouldn't take too long. I've had e-mail accounts receiving 600 spam mails per day, so 256 over a long period isn't too much to worry about!

Chris

[kwicky]

Maybe you could change your e-mail address and delete the old one.

[fo3nix]

Yea I'm with Buenchico here. I get 100 spam emails a day, sometimes more. But when you check your emails with outlook express, it should just load up a big list of your emails, without actually loading the email content itself. You should just be able to highlight all the spam emails and delete them in one go, so it shouldn't take too long.

Mailwasher is here, it may be of some help:
http://www.mailwasher.net/

I haven't used it myself because I use Thunderbird which has its own effective spam filter, but it's a bayesian filter so wouldn't be that useful to you right now.

[bossychloe]

Thank you everyone for your help, I really appreciate it. Chloe x