Karel,
>I managed to delete the messages as follows: >ctrl-click (or right-click with a 2 button mouse) on it >select 'Move to Mail Trash' from the pop-up >use the keyboard 'Cmd-backspace' for emptying the trash > tried all those, the trash will empty all other messages, but one little devil keeps sticking in there, resulting in error. at least the error doesn't loop. on the other hand the trash keeps counting messages, even when they're gone. it now says '92 messages' with only one there. ddv