How can you make Mail in Leopard delete messages

Senna,

Try rebuilding that particular mailbox.

1. Click on the mailbox to highlight it
2. Go to Mailbox on the main menu bar and choose "Rebuild"

This should fix your mailbox.
I had to rebuild all of my mailboxes and now they work just fine.

I have the same problem with my drafts folder. It wont let me delete any saved messages. When I delete them they disappear until I re-enter my drafts folder. Never had this problem with Mail 2.0!

Another user posted the following solution in another thread and it cleared up the issue for me! Hope this works for you too!

1. In Mail, open Preferences from the 'Mail' menu.
2. Click on 'Accounts.'
3. Click on the account the Draft is saved under (to find this out, open the draft and see what account your using <-- for multi-account users only).
4. Click on the 'Mailbox Behaviors' tab.
5. Uncheck the box "Move deleted messages to a separate folder."
6. Close Preferences and click 'Save.'
7. Delete your message. (If you want, go back and follow steps 1-4, then check the 'Move deleted messages' box again).

After spending hours switching from Entourage to Mail, I'm having the same issue. I have 5 messages that I can't delete no matter what I do. Unfortunately, I can't choose to rebuild my Inbox because "Rebuild" is not an option for the Inbox, Sent, Trash or Junk folders.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
~Halle

After spending hours trying to figure it out... I think I have the answer!
It's so simple... Naturally.
Highlight the messages you want to delete and --> Edit --> Cut
I'd empty the deleted items folder real quick too... Just in case. ;D