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As a safeguard against inadvertent deletions, two
steps are required to delete a message in Eudora.
For any current message, choose Delete from the
Message menu. This does not actually delete the
message, but transfers it to the Trash mailbox. To
delete messages from the Trash mailbox, select Empty
Trash from the Special menu. Quitting the program
also empties the contents of the Trash mailbox when
the Empty Trash on Quit option in the Switches...
dialog is turned on. Finally, if you want to delete
just a few messages from the Trash mailbox,
highlight them and select Delete from the Message
menu. Deleting a message that’s already in the
Trash removes it from Eudora completely.
Also, unless the Easy Delete option in the
Switches... dialog is turned on, any attempt to
delete a message that you have never opened (or a
Queued message that hasn’t been sent) results in
Eudora asking for confirmation before proceeding
with the deletion.
Even after a message has been deleted with the two-
step process described above, the storage space
which that message originally required is still
taken. Normally, Eudora recovers this space
automatically when it becomes troublesome. However,
if disk space is very tight, you can force this to
happen earlier than usual. In order to reclaim the
storage space, select the Compact Mailboxes from the
Special menu. To compact an individual mailbox,
hold down the [command]/CTRL key and single-click on the
mailbox size display (see the "Mailbox Size Display"
section).
Note: Eudora compacts mailboxes automatically when you
close them under either of two conditions. Mailboxes are
compacted if the amount of wasted space in the mailbox is
greater than the amount of space the messages in the mailbox
use, or if the amount of space wasted in the mailbox is
greater than 5% of the free space on the volume that contains it.
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