Can I automatically purge deleted items from my IMAP inbox??

S

Stocky

I have my email account with Optusnet, and it is set up as an IMAP account.
When I delete the mail in the inbox, there is a line thorugh it. I can
manually purge these, however I would like to set it up so that when I drag
the email to the deleted box, it dissappears. Is this actually possible with
the IMAP account?
 
R

Rob Schneider

Stocky said:
I have my email account with Optusnet, and it is set up as an IMAP account.
When I delete the mail in the inbox, there is a line thorugh it. I can
manually purge these, however I would like to set it up so that when I drag
the email to the deleted box, it dissappears. Is this actually possible with
the IMAP account?
Assuming you are using Outlook as your email client and it is Outlook
you are asking questions about ... no way to do it automatically that I
know of. When you delete the mail, you can 'hide' it by selecting the
the view "hide messages marked for deletion". To actually delete the
files from the IMAP server mailbox file, in outlook you do menu:
edit/purge deleted messages.
 
W

William

Dear Rob, you seem very knowlegable about Outlook. Do you know how II can get
my outlook to stop sending me 2 of each incoming e-mail . This just started
today but have no idea what caused it?
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

If you have Norton Internet Security automatically checking your incoming
and outgoing mail, turn it off.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, William asked:

| Dear Rob, you seem very knowlegable about Outlook. Do you know how II
| can get my outlook to stop sending me 2 of each incoming e-mail .
| This just started today but have no idea what caused it?
|
| "Rob Schneider" wrote:
|
|| Stocky wrote:
||| I have my email account with Optusnet, and it is set up as an IMAP
||| account. When I delete the mail in the inbox, there is a line
||| thorugh it. I can manually purge these, however I would like to
||| set it up so that when I drag the email to the deleted box, it
||| dissappears. Is this actually possible with the IMAP account?
|| Assuming you are using Outlook as your email client and it is Outlook
|| you are asking questions about ... no way to do it automatically
|| that I know of. When you delete the mail, you can 'hide' it by
|| selecting the the view "hide messages marked for deletion". To
|| actually delete the files from the IMAP server mailbox file, in
|| outlook you do menu: edit/purge deleted messages.
 

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