You can delete messages through calls to methods of the DeleteMessages class:

Figure: The DeleteMessage Class

JavaMail_DeleteMessages

You can:

delete specific messages from the inbox folder by message id
delete specific messages from arbitrary folders by message id
delete messages matching retrieval constraints (time window, subject line, unread, etc)

Deleting a Message from the Inbox by its ID

You can delete a message with a known id from the inbox by calling the deleteMessageById method:

JavaMail_DeleteMessages_deleteMessageById

Parameters of method deleteMessageById in detail:

Name	Type	Direction	Remarks
connection	MailConnection	In	Specifies connection details such as server name, protocol etc. (see Mail Connection).
id	String	In	Id of the message to be deleted.
return	Boolean	Return	True, if the message was found and deleted. False otherwise.

Deleting Multiple Messages from the Inbox by their IDs

Analogous todeleteMessageById, you can delete multiple messages by their ids from the inbox by calling the deleteMessagesById method.

Parameters of method deleteMessagesById in detail:

Name	Type	Direction	Remarks
connection	MailConnection	In	Specifies connection details such as server name, protocol etc. (see Mail Connection).
id	Array of String	In	List of ids of the messages to be deleted.
return	Boolean	Return	True, if the action has been successful. False otherwise.

You can delete a message from an arbitrary folder by its ID by calling the deleteMessageByFolderAndId method:

JavaMail_DeleteMessages_deleteMessageByFolderAndId

Parameters of method deleteMessageByFolderAndId in detail:

Name	Type	Direction	Remarks
connection	MailConnection	In	Specifies connection details such as server name, protocol etc. (see Mail Connection).
folder	String	In	Folder in which the message is located.
id	String	In	Id of the message.
return	Boolean	Return	True, if the message was found and deleted. False otherwise.

You can specify which messages to delete by providing a constraints object to the deleteMessagesWithConstraints method:

Parameters of method deleteMessageWithConstraint in detail:

Name	Type	Direction	Remarks
connection	MailConnection	In	Specifies connection details such as server name, protocol etc. (see Mail Connection).
constraints	RetrievalConstraints	In	Class containing the constraints that the records to be deleted must match.
affectedMessages	Integer	Return	Number of messages that have been deleted.

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