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How do I delete automatically from the inbox? After I read a message in my

inbox and I choose delete from the edit tab the message changes in the inbox

to a lined out message but does not delete. The only way I can delete is to

move the message to the delete folder and the message goes into the delete

folder but still does not delete from the inbos. The message is still lined

out but remains present in the inbox. I have spent 45 mins. looking for a

fix on this but cannot figure it out. Please give me the steps to accomplish

this.


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seatonrltr <seatonrltr@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote:



Apparently you are using an IMAP account. IMAP accounts do NOT have Deleted

Items folders (at least that mean anything). Clicking Delete just marks the

message for deletion. In order to actually remove the items, click

Edit>Purge Deleted Items.



Click View>Arrange By>Current View>Hide Messages Marked for Deletion if you

don't want to see them. I think that if you select the "Empty the Deleted

Items folder upon exiting" option on Tools>Options>Other, that items marked

for deletion will be purged when you exit Outlook, but I'm not certain of

that.

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Brian Tillman



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Mozilla Thunderbird does it with IMAP, and has for the three years I've used

it. Maybe that was once true, with early IMAP standards, but Outlook is just

woefully behind the curve in this area. The same is true with placing sent

items in an IMAP sent items folder. Thunderbird does it perfectly.



"Brian Tillman" wrote:

plogan <plogan@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote:



If that's what you see, then Thunderbird is handling it itself, making you

think it's available. The IMAP standards specify that I said.



It's still true.



But what Thunderbird is doing is outside of the IMAP standards. I will

agree, though, that Outlook is not the best IMAP client that exists.

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Brian Tillman



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