[pianotech] Delete key stopped working in Thunderbird (OT)

[Mike Spalding]

David,

Don't panic and migrate to Outlook just yet.

With programs like Thunderbird, or ZoneAlarm, which seem to be 
constantly downloading new automatic updates, I see features and bugs 
come and go as each provider deals with unintended consequences of their 
updates, and unanticipated interactions with other programs.  As long as 
it's not preventing you from using Thunderbird (you can still delete a 
message by clicking on the big red X in the toolbar?) I would wait for 
the next round of updates and see if the delete function comes back.  
FWIW, my delete key works to delete messages, today anyway.  6-year-old 
Dell desktop, Windows XP Home.

Mike

Tom Rhea, Jr. wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> This is just a guess, but it sounds like you might have picked up some sort
> of virus or malware that affects your ability to delete in Mozilla.  If the
> Delete key does, in fact, work in ALL of your other programs or applications
> then a hardware cause is ruled out.  If the Delete key operated normally
> from the beginning with Mozilla Thunderbird and then failed later, then the
> only other option is to consider some sort of malware or virus.
>
> I'm not sure what your Operating System is but if it's Windows XP (God, I
> hope it's not Vista <yuck>), you might want to consider migrating your
> e-mail client to Outlook Express.
>
> Good Luck,
> Tom
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
> Of David Boyce
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:45 AM
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: [pianotech] Delete key stopped working in Thunderbird (OT)
>
>   Does anyone know why the Delete key should have stopped working in 
> Thunderbird, the email client I use?
>
> The Delete key on my laptop worked perfectly well to delete individual 
> emails or selected groups of emails, since I installed the Mozilla 
> Thunderbird email client. And then last week it just stopped. I 
> installed the latest version to see if that would help, but no 
> difference.  The Delete key works as normal in other programs.
>
> I can't find much online about this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daivd Boyce
>
>
>