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, Grant Hardy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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 work. Unfortunately, it 
> seems that with some Email providers, moving messages out of junk, and into 
> trash, is considered unmarking them as spam.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Grant
> 
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