Ah the penny has at last dropped :( 
Prior to El Capitan, Mail had three controls at the bottom of the Sidebar.
A Plus sign, an Up/Down arrow/triangle, and a settings gear.

These were all removed in El Capitan.

Cheers,
Ronni

Sent from Ronni's iPad4


> On 22 Nov 2015, at 11:44 AM, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 22 Nov 2015, at 9:40 AM, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> I posted earlier on this but no solution.  In Yosemite and earlier, in Mail, 
>> on the LHS, below listed mailboxes, was a little magic wheel dropdown menu 
>> to Delete Junk, Empty Trash and the like.  Nowhere is it to be seen in 
>> ElCapitan nor can I bring it back any way I can find.  What am I missing, it 
>> has to be something simple!  
> 
> Hi Severin,
> 
> Option-Command-J to erase messages in all your Mail Accounts Junk Folder at 
> once.
> 
> To delete all messages in a Trash folder, select the Trash folder, then 
> Command-A (to select all messages) then hit Delete 
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
> 
> OS X El Capitan 10.11.1
> 
> 
>> Severin Crisp
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