Outlook - Deleting Emails

triggerthat · 7 Jul 2007 at 20:38

Hi,

I have outlook 03 setup with an IMAP email account. Once I delete an email, its not actually deleted, but a line straight through it is shown. How do I actually delete it and is there a way that does it for all, rather than going through each one?

marc2003 · 7 Jul 2007 at 20:39

look on one the menus (file or edit possibly) for a purge option.

gillywibble · 7 Jul 2007 at 20:39

Does shift and delete work? You can also use the shift and cursor keys to highlight several.

rudeboymcc · 7 Jul 2007 at 21:20

go to the mail account settings (Tools->account settings).

select the account in question and click change.
click the "more settings" button

the last option says "purge items when switching folders while connected". With this checked, once you've deleted something and it has a line through it, to actually delete it just switch to another folder (like the sent folder), and go back to inbox and it should be deleted.

This is the only way I've found to delete all the crossed out e-mails.

This is all with Outlook 2007 but shouldn't be too differnet in any previous verisons.

triggerthat · 7 Jul 2007 at 21:42

Thanks.