Deleting Outlook mail forever?

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Is there a way of deleting mail from Outlook, forever?

When it goes to 'Deleted Items' and you empty this...is there a way to stop them from getting recovered?
 
After they've gone from "Deleted Items", I thought they were gone forever?

I normally just shift+delete things anyway.
 
Depends on the mail server, when it actually gets deleted from there and on the backup policy. Need more info.

MW
 
You can configure Exchange to retain deleted items for X number of days. I can't recall what the defaults are. Then there is also the backups as mentioned. Depending on your company these could go back days, weeks or months.
 
Depends if you use MS Exchange or you are just on about local outlook. As others have mentioned if you use a mailserver at work chances are no you can't remove them completely just from using the Outlook client. The mail admins may even have a journal mailbox set up which archives all sent/received emails for compliancy purposes.
 
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