@burnout426 That's certainly got some of them back. Possibly the Read ones but I need to check. Fingers crossed. Thanks

@burnout426 That's certainly got some of them back. Possibly the Read ones but I need to check. Fingers crossed. Thanks

@burnout426 I also appear to have lost the email trail

@burnout426 That just send the deleted emails from the rash folder back into both Unread and Received

@burnout426 I'm getting more in a knot now. I had the same emails in Unread and Received and they were in bold. I have just right clicked on Received and clicked Mark All as Read and they all turned to light and the whole of the Unread folder has disappeared How can I get it back but showing just Unread?
That will not get me where I want to be

@sgunhouse The poroblem with doing that is that you delete ones you want to keep. In Windows Mail you can show all unread emails and then delete as you wish without deleting the read ones. I can't see in Opera Mail that it even indicates if an email is read or not

I am using Opera Mail on a laptop with Windows10.
I want to get rid of unread emails - I have over 8,000 emails listed most of these are spam and from a while back when I wasn't deleting them, The same number is in the Received folder and the Unread folder. There does not seem to be any indication which are read and which are not.
Can someone please tell me how to get rid of them or archive the whole lot from, say, 1st Jan 2020 back