Let’s say you’re reading a newsgroup with Thunderbird, and some spam gets posted. Or someone posts an offensive message you just want to remove from the message list. Or any case in which you just want to remove an individual article you’ve already downloaded.
In the past, it wasn’t possible to delete individual messages. At least not without exploiting the message aging feature. In the latest version of Thunderbird, you can delete individual messages. You just need to change a preference in the config editor to enable the feature.
- Go to Tools > Options > Advanced > General, and click on Config Editor.
- In the Config Editor, search for the preference: news.allow_delete_with_no_undo
- Double-click on it, to set the value to true.
After that, the delete command will work when you have any newsgroup messages selected.