how to delete emails form IMAP account

[John]

Outlook 2003, IMAP account.
When i right click on email and select move to trash on - nothing happens.
When i click delete it just strikes name of email, but nothing hapens as
well. Dont it supposed to delete message from outlook and from server?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Edit->purge - this is how IMAP works.

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After furious head scratching, John asked:

| Outlook 2003, IMAP account.
| When i right click on email and select move to trash on - nothing
| happens. When i click delete it just strikes name of email, but
| nothing hapens as well. Dont it supposed to delete message from
| outlook and from server?

 

[John]

whats the secret behind moving them to another folder using IMAP?

 

[Gordon]

whats the secret behind moving them to another folder using IMAP?

No secret - just drag and drop...