How to purge messages in Thunderbird.

[VJ]

VJ wrote:

> Hi
>    It is a small question related to ThunderBird. I have set a 
> property in my IMAP email account settings due to which the messages 
> will not be moved to Trash when deleted, but will be marked as 
> deleted. Now I want to have something which is similar to Purge in 
> Outlook Express to delete the messages that have been marked as deleted.
>
> I tried searching for it before writing this mail to the list.
>
> Regards from
> VJ
>
I Got it!!!
It was File->Compact Folders.

I wrongly assumed it was something like Outlook which compacts the local 
folders.

VJ