I have several pop accounts that I have activated in Outlook. When I exit, I
would like not only the main Deleted Items folder to be emptied, but all
other Deleted Items folders in my individual .pst files. Is there a VBA
script I can use to do this? Not good enough at VBA to write one myself, but
if someone sends me a generic skeleton, I could probably play around with it
and customize it to my accounts.

Thanks,

Rather than mess with VBA, especially if you have to rely on others to write
it for you, why not set up autoarchive to delete items from the deleted
items folders? Set it to run daily and delete items older than a day. A
benefit is that it won't delay outlook's shutdown, as the empty on exit and
a vba macro would.

See http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2003/20030918.htm for the basics.

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"jammy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have several pop accounts that I have activated in Outlook. When I exit,
> I
> would like not only the main Deleted Items folder to be emptied, but all
> other Deleted Items folders in my individual .pst files. Is there a VBA
> script I can use to do this? Not good enough at VBA to write one myself,
> but
> if someone sends me a generic skeleton, I could probably play around with
> it
> and customize it to my accounts.
>
> Thanks,
>

Thanks! Will give it a try. When I turned archiving for the Deleted Items
folders, it forced me to set a default autoarchive period of 14 days. I went
to Tools --> Options and made the default autoarchive do nothing. I assume
that the individual archives for the Deleted Items will still be performed.

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

> Rather than mess with VBA, especially if you have to rely on others to write
> it for you, why not set up autoarchive to delete items from the deleted
> items folders? Set it to run daily and delete items older than a day. A
> benefit is that it won't delay outlook's shutdown, as the empty on exit and
> a vba macro would.
>
> See http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2003/20030918.htm for the basics.
>
> --
> Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
> Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
> Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
>
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>
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>
> Let's Really Fix Outlook 2010
> http://forums.slipstick.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34
>
> "jammy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:C973F1F8-74DD-4879-9D49-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I have several pop accounts that I have activated in Outlook. When I exit,
> > I
> > would like not only the main Deleted Items folder to be emptied, but all
> > other Deleted Items folders in my individual .pst files. Is there a VBA
> > script I can use to do this? Not good enough at VBA to write one myself,
> > but
> > if someone sends me a generic skeleton, I could probably play around with
> > it
> > and customize it to my accounts.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
>

You need to set the option to run every xx days in tools, options, other,
autoarchive. Set the default to 60 months so it skips other folders and set
the properties of any folder you absolutely do not want archived to not
archive that folder.

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"jammy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:BE90EE43-52DB-441E-8DB7-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks! Will give it a try. When I turned archiving for the Deleted Items
> folders, it forced me to set a default autoarchive period of 14 days. I
> went
> to Tools --> Options and made the default autoarchive do nothing. I assume
> that the individual archives for the Deleted Items will still be
> performed.
>
> "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Rather than mess with VBA, especially if you have to rely on others to
>> write
>> it for you, why not set up autoarchive to delete items from the deleted
>> items folders? Set it to run daily and delete items older than a day. A
>> benefit is that it won't delay outlook's shutdown, as the empty on exit
>> and
>> a vba macro would.
>>
>> See http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2003/20030918.htm for the
>> basics.
>>
>> --
>> Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
>> Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
>> Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
>>
>> Outlook Tips by email:
>> mailto:dailytips-subscribe-(E-Mail Removed)
>>
>> EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
>> mailto:EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-(E-Mail Removed)
>>
>> Let's Really Fix Outlook 2010
>> http://forums.slipstick.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34
>>
>> "jammy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:C973F1F8-74DD-4879-9D49-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > I have several pop accounts that I have activated in Outlook. When I
>> > exit,
>> > I
>> > would like not only the main Deleted Items folder to be emptied, but
>> > all
>> > other Deleted Items folders in my individual .pst files. Is there a VBA
>> > script I can use to do this? Not good enough at VBA to write one
>> > myself,
>> > but
>> > if someone sends me a generic skeleton, I could probably play around
>> > with
>> > it
>> > and customize it to my accounts.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>>