George Henne said: >Perhaps I am missing something here. When I do this, the messages stay in >the Mail Trash. I think that all the delete is doing is moving the >messages to the Mail Trash, and doing nothing if already there.
Moving messages into the Mail Trash doesn't delete them, it only means that they're one step closer to meeting their maker. If you want to get rid of the messages in the Mail Trash you need to Empty Mail Trash... under the Special menu. After you empty the mail trash you might notice that your mail database is just as large as it was before. This is because Empty Mail Trash only removes the messages from visible access, but they are still hiding in the database. To really get rid of them, once and for all, you need to Compact Database, under File menu- Database. >Also, I have to use command shift (not just shift) to select a block of >messages. You're not using OSX, right? The keyboard shortcut commands changed between OS versions. As you discovered, click on the first message to delete, scroll to the last message in the block to be removed, and shift- command click on it. You can also Empty Mail Trash by hitting shift- command- delete. Tim Tokyo, Japan iBook PPC G3 300MHz OS 8.6 160MB/+400MB VM CarbonLib 1.6 PM 4.1.2 (15MB allocated) 2 pane view Digest Mode Tim's PowerMail FAQ <http://home.hpo.net/timm/PowerMailFAQ.html> Last updated: March 21, 2002 PowerMail AppleScript Archives: <http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html>
