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Immediately delete messages from Mail.app with a hotkey
Sure, you can simply hit the delete key in Mail.app to send a
message to the Trash, then empty the trash or go in and manually delete the message again to remove it for good. Or,
you could use a simple, handy little tip that MacOSXHints tracked down to
immediately and permanently delete any message from any folder in Mail.app. You simply need to use the cut command
(cmd-x) on any number of messages to permanently remove them from Mail, no Trash middle-man required.Of course, a mild word of caution might be needed here: bypassing the Trash means you're bypassing the trash. That message is gone for good if you use this command, so use it wisely, young Mail.app padawan.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jamie said 6:14PM on 1-07-2006
been there, done that ...
by accident, a few times.
bummer.
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MILE said 2:39AM on 1-08-2006
Is it really gone...? I mean, if Cmd-X works then it should be possible to restore it with Cmd-V -- as long as you haven't stuffed anything else in your clipboard by that time...?!
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bryan said 4:53AM on 1-08-2006
yup CMD + V restores the email you have just deleted
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bryan said 4:55AM on 1-08-2006
and CMD+V also pastes the contents of the email into textedit etc
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