Mail & Trash

I found out that if you delete mail from your Inbox it actually just goes and sits in the trash. Even if you have the "Remove when removed from Inbox" selected in your account settings in your email.
Has anyone else seen this? Is there an easier way then having to go line by line and having to stroke each of the (already) deleted items from your TRASH??
I think there would be. I have placed this as a feature request on the official site for feedback, but if anyone has a workaround for this it would be great. My POP3 account gets thousands of emails a day and to "stroke through" all of those twice... you get my point.

Yes, I already do that. My problem is I get thousands of emails a day. Wouldn't it be nice that instead of having to go one by one and deleting them or having to have your phone delete everything every day, to have a button that asks to empty all contents?
Sometimes I don't get to my computer to physically check mail, so I don't necessarily want to delete everything after one day. I want to leave it up there for at least 7 in case I don't have time to check it. That way it is populated on my home computer as well.
I just think there should be a better way of doing it than having to delete everything one by one-whether by stroking or using the "Edit" button.

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