Well it seems that quiting PowerMail got them gone. I think my PowerMail implementation for mac.com is clear. I find that I need to physically move messages to folders where I want to store them, not use the filters. But the filters on sent messages work! I can live with that.
Midi Midi caused electrons to hula in cyberspace with: >I am back to using PowerMail for my mac.com email under Lion. I can have >Apple Mail off pretty much most of the time but have to check an >Exchange server on one account occasionally. (I could never make the >Exchange server work with PowerMail and get so few messages there, I gave up.) > >So, all my old Mail messages came into the inbox but how do I delete >them? I tried and they are now grey but still there. I moved them to the >appropriate folder first so there is an accesible version. > >Midi > >CTM caused electrons to hula in cyberspace with: > >>Peter Lovell was suggesting (POP3 over IMAP): >> - setup the account as IMAP >> - Once connected, copy all remote messages waiting to a local folder >>(with a name such as "Local INBOX) and then delete them from the IMAP4 server >> - Reply and process messages in the Local INBOX as if it had come over >>POP3; apply filters to them with the contextual menu.
