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Drag Mail messages to the dock's trash Apps
I don't know if that worked with 10.2 Mail.app, but with 10.3 Mail.app you can drag messages to the dock's trash to delete them.

[robg adds: I'm not sure why you'd want to do this (hitting Delete seems so much easier!), but it does work...]
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perfect timing
Authored by: ragnar on Nov 13, '03 11:42:00AM

I'll share this in case it is helpful to others. This morning I discovered a bug in Mail.app that causes it to crash when receiving a digitally signed (via Verisign) message from an Outlook 2003 (windows) user. The crash happens when selecting the message, which makes it impossible to delete. I submitted a bug report to Apple.

The hint above made it possible to delete the offending message, which remained marked as a new message. Annoying, to say the least. At least now it is out of the way.



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perfect timing
Authored by: escowles on Nov 13, '03 04:08:36PM

Actually, it's pretty easy to select messages without opening them -- just drag the preview window all the way down. If there's no preview window, it doesn't open the message when you select it.

-Esme



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perfect timing
Authored by: subatomicsatan on Nov 13, '03 04:29:50PM

not sure if this will help, but if you selected the message right above the offending message, then shift-select the offending message, you should be able to delete them both without crashing...i do that with spam when i do not want the images loaded.

hope this helps!



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10.3: Drag Mail messages to the dock's trash
Authored by: j0nathan on Nov 13, '03 11:44:50AM

Also works in 10.2



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10.3: Drag Mail messages to the dock's trash
Authored by: mrgerbek on Nov 13, '03 01:25:11PM

This is the sort of item that makes Macs usable for people like your parents. A cohesive set of rules you can give them like "drag it to the trash" work all over.

Some days you wish you could just get them a PC and say "I'm sorry I can't help you, I don't know how it works in Windows...."

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