Although not ideal - if you use a schedule to empty the deleted items folder
then you only need to twiddle your thumbs once. Don't start the schedule
manually, however - let the timer do it.
ds
>on 8/4/01 8:14 PM, George Clark at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 8/4/01 22:52, Zachary Braverman wrote:
>
>> When several thousand messages in mailing list folders have accumulated,
>> moving the messages to the Deleted Messages folder takes several minutes,
>> after which deleting them from this folder takes several more minutes.
>>
>> Is there a key combination to delete messages in one fell swoop from their
>> original folders? I've tried shift, option, etc., and none of these obvious
>> ones seem to work.
>
> No, there's no way to delete a message without first (in effect) moving it
> to Deleted Messages. You can simulate a "permanent delete" with AppleScript,
> doing two consecutive deletes; that moves the message to Deleted Messages,
> then proceeds to delete it from that folder. It doesn't save any time, but
> would only require one menu selection, or key combo if you assign one to the
> script.
>
> George
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