Yes of course it is a spam attack SIW2. But since the spam messages cannot be opened or deleted, I suspect that the spam messages were already automatically deleted. Especially if the setting has been checked at: Tools->Safety options...->Permanently delete suspected junk email....
Thus, I was addressing the issue of the inability to read and or delete them, not the spam issue itself.
When the Quick views are broken, one symptom that is often evident is the appearance of messages (usually unread), in the message list of the Quick views, that have already been deleted. Such phantom messages cannot be read or deleted, but disappear when the Quick views are repaired.
That is why I asked about the Quick views. If the problem is not related to the Quick views, the OP will advise us, and we can go from there. This does not at all detract from your sound advice about running a scan for virus/spyware.
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Cheers,
Peter
(Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
"There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespeare
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"SIW2" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:f6b89195c3589427b0b6f1cff8d9b74d@xxxxxx-gateway.com...
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> Hi Peter,
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> Do you think this would show as 25 messages from different senders with
> the same heading ( and possibly contents) ? Sounds like a spam attack
> don't you think ?
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> SIW2
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> SIW2