Unfortunately, there's no direct way to selectively expunge mail from a mailbox
without affecting other mail, that I can see; it's all or nothing. However, if
under Preferences, Accounts, your account, Mailbox Behaviours, you choose not
to move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox, you could
Hello all,
I was wondering if anyone knows how to permanently erase a message, or group of
messages, from an IMAP account in the mail app without sending them to the
trash. I've read a couple of articles that suggest simply hitting CMD+X to cut
them to the clipboard, but this seems not to
Grant, the keystroke you want is command shift delete. I use it all the time
and bypass the trash in that way. You'll have to answer a confirmation dialog
box that pops up, but that's not a difficult task to accomplish. Hope this
helps.
Les
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On Sep 2, 2014, at 11:42 PM,
Hmmm, on my computer running Mavericks, doing cmd-shift-delete doesn't seem to
send one message directly to the trash. Instead it brings up a dialog asking me
if I want to delete all items in trash and it says something about doing that
in all accounts. Maybe I'm missing something about how and
Hi Cheryl,
No, that's exactly the message I get. I must tell you however that I only have
one mail account. I'm guessing that it would delete any items in the trash
folders for whatever account you have in your system. But it might be worth
calling Apple to check this out. Again, the message
