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<span style=" font-family:'Verdana'; font-size: 10pt;">Hello Joseph,<br>
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You nailed it. Mine uses Purge. Purge is a common programming term so you<br>
can bet that the reason they use that word is it's coming from the <br>
programmers writing the email client. Expunge sounds more like a legal term <br>
than anything to do with software and I'm surprised that it became an official <br>
command as programmers would far more likely think of purge first. Perhaps a <br>
non-programmer came up with that one.<br>
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Friday, April 2, 2010, 6:00:15 PM, you wrote:<br>
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<span style=" font-family:'courier new'; font-size: 9pt; color: #800000;"><b>> --On Friday, April 2, 2010 5:30 PM -0700 Nybbles2Byte <br>
> <<a style=" font-weight: normal;" href="mailto:nybbles2byte@gmail.com">nybbles2byte@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<span style=" color: #800080;">>> Okay, I am sure this is stupid question but how do you really delete<br>
>> messages. When I delete messages in my email client and then log in to<br>
>> see the mailbox through a web program I see that the message are marked<br>
>> as deleted but still there.<br>
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<span style=" color: #800000;">> That's what "delete" does. It marks the messages deleted. You can still<br>
> undelete them, in case of error.<br>
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> Then the command "expunge" removes all messages marked deleted. For no<br>
> known reason some clients call this "purge" instead of "expunge".<br>
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> Joseph Brennan<br>
> Columbia University Information Technology<br>
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