can you not hilight it and select junk or trash on your email program? have you tried to just grab it and drag it to the trash folder? How about right click on it and select delete?
does it show on the subject area if it contains an attachment of any type? I assume you are using an email program with Earthlink are you using it through Outlook Express, Outlook, or is it a web based email that you can check from a webpage online?

raven, I am having somewhat of the same problem as nana, I have an email, with attachment, received back late winter. Won't delete, can't move it, it locks up the OE when I do hilite it, so it just stays there. Am reluctant to try much of anything more with it, would appreciate some insight as to how to get rid of it.
I keep in in the middle of the mail groups, as I don't want to have it hilited and then tie up the mail otherwise.
If someone could let me in on the secret of how to get rid of the darn thing I would appreciate it no end.
You mentioned dragging it to the trash, how would I go about this?

Hi,
I've tried going on-line to Earthlink through Internet Explorer and getting rid of it there but it doesn't show up in my in-box there..
I tried right clicking and it just freezes up the email program. It seem the second I right click or left click on it it freezes up so I can't drag it or hilight it either.
There is no attachment with it and the subject line reads: "ONE SNEEZE AND IT'S SCR............"
That's all that'll fit on the line so I don't know what the rest of the subject line says.
Yes we are using the program with Earthlink but I'm not sure if we are using it through Outlook Express or Outlook.
Sorry I can't answer that question for you.
Thank you so much for trying to help.
Margaret.

I just tried something else, and it worked.
I rearanged the email in my 'in' box, I usually have them listed by date, so I resorted them using 'From' and the email ended up in between a number of emails I didn't need any more so I tried hilighting the 2 emails either side of it and hit 'trash' and they all went, then that particular email still showed up as unread in my trash file, so, I went into the 'trash' file and used the same hilight method and hit the delete button. Presto, it's gone............
Thank you so much for your time.
Margaret.

ok y'all try this, try going to
mail2web.com
and try getting your email through there sometimes you can delete things from there that you can not on regular mail. Give that a try.

to drag it to your trash folder just click on it with your left mouse button and keep it held down and drag your mouse so that you drag the email from where it is over to the trash folder and then drop it (let up on the mouse button) when it hilights the trash folder. Some will let you drag and drop some won't.

raven, hope that nana has better luck than I did, seems I have no mail according to mail2web.com.
I have tried the dragging and dropping thing also to no avail, seems I have to live with this.
I am going to try nana's suggestion, and see if that will work, doubt it tho, have tried all other alternatives and this is a bummer!