shift-del did the trick. Awesome! Thank you for your help. Hopefully I can reciprocate one of these days. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reginald George" <adapt@xxxxxxxxx> To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 4:13 PM Subject: [real-eyes] Re: getting rid of email that just won't go away > Usually it's because something has become corrupted with that message. > From > the list of messages, Try pressing shift delete. If that doesn't work, go > to the file menu, choose work offline, close OE, open it again, and then > try > shift delete. One of those methods should work. Let us know. > > -----Original Message----- > From: kitty hevener > Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 12:08 PM > To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [real-eyes] getting rid of email that just won't go away > > All, In all my years working with computers, I have never run in to this > one. I have an email that I can't delete. When I try to delete from > within > the message, I get "the message can not be deleted". If I am pointing to > the message and hit del key, the message just remains. Am using outlook > express and windows xp home edition. How can I get rid of this nuisance > message? Btw, the message in quetion is not spam, it is from a friend. > Your help is greatly appreciated. > To subscribe or to leave the list, or to set other subscription options, > go > to www.freelists.org/list/real-eyes > > To subscribe or to leave the list, or to set other subscription options, > go to www.freelists.org/list/real-eyes > > > To subscribe or to leave the list, or to set other subscription options, go to www.freelists.org/list/real-eyes