Is There an INSTANT KILL for Unwanted E-mails?

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I sometimes think Outlook 2003 (which I'm using w/XP Home) was designed by
the Collyer Brothers--it can't bear to throw anything out. I get tons of
stuff that I'd like to kill on sight, unopened and without going to the
Delete File, as soon as it appears. SHIFT+DELETE is good for individual
messages--and for multiples IF they are contiguous. That is, if they all
appear in a row. Since they seldom do, I resort to CTRL+DELETE, but that
sends the stuff to the Delete File AND sometimes causes all items selected to
open.

So, I want top 'shoot on sight.' Anyone got solutions?
 
obillo said:
I sometimes think Outlook 2003 (which I'm using w/XP Home) was designed by
the Collyer Brothers--it can't bear to throw anything out. I get tons of
stuff that I'd like to kill on sight, unopened and without going to the
Delete File, as soon as it appears. SHIFT+DELETE is good for individual
messages--and for multiples IF they are contiguous. That is, if they all
appear in a row. Since they seldom do, I resort to CTRL+DELETE, but that
sends the stuff to the Delete File AND sometimes causes all items selected to
open.

So, I want top 'shoot on sight.' Anyone got solutions?
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Um, just HOW do you select multiple non-contiguous items in Windows
Explorer? It's the same keystrokes in Outlook.
 
The way I go about it is that I have Outlook set up to download headers only. When
all emails download I select Delete All and before I hit Send Receive I unmark the
emails that I plan to keep from deletion. Then Send Receive and I got only the
emails that I selected. All the rest are deleted at the Server end
 
Thanks, Bob I. This helps a lot and now that I've managed to turn off 'are
you sure?' I'm more efficient./
 
TKS, Peter. I'm leery of anything involving the words 'set up' because I'd
have to "do something" to my Outlook, which downloads all mail automatically.
But if I understand your solution, I would achieve same effect by first
opening gmail, marking for deletion the headers displayed there, and then
opening Outlook so as to auto-download the survivors. Come to think of it,
that's what I'll do if ever I get around to checking e-mail when traveling.
 
I was talking about having Outlook download only the Headers

Outlook\Tools\Options\Mail Setup\Send/Receive\Edit\Folder Options and select
Download Headers Only. Then it is very easy to do what I posted before
 
VanguardLH said:
Um, just HOW do you select multiple non-contiguous items in Windows
Explorer? It's the same keystrokes in Outlook.
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Click first item, shift click last item in first block, CTRL click first
item of second block, shift click last item in second block, etc. etc.
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John said:
Click first item, shift click last item in first block, CTRL click first
item of second block, shift click last item in second block, etc. etc.
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I wasn't the one that needed to know so why reply to me?
 
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