Step 1: Open Trash

Double click the Trash box to open it.

Step 2: Review Titles

Before you empty trash, make sure you really want to delete the messages permanently. An easy way to do this is to skim the titles of the emails you're deleting.

Step 3: Rescue Important Message

If you see a message that shouldn't be in the trash, transfer it to another mailbox. You do this just like any other message transfer: drag it from the trash to the mailbox, or select Transfer.

Step 4: Empty Trash

By emptying the trash periodically, you gain the advantages of disk efficiency and faster backups. Select Special / Empty Trash and the messages you've thrown in the trash will be permanently deleted.

Step 5: View Window List

While still in the Trash box, select Window and look at the list of windows in the drop-down list. There are two active windows, "trash" and "in." In Eudora you can actually have several mailboxes active, and several mail messages open, at the same time, and use the Window menu to move among the open windows. Normally, this isn't needed.

Step 6: Close Trash

Click the lower X mark to dismiss the Trash box. You will be returned to the In mailbox.