A simple right click, and my deleted items go to the recycle bin. I delete junk mail to the “deleted items” in almost real time as they download.
Why can I not do this with “sent items?” I have to delete them one at a time. There’s a thousand or so of them, and I don’t care to do it one at a time.
Left click on the first message to highlight it. Scroll down to the end, hold down the shift key and left click on the last message. This will highlight all of the messages, then just hit delete.