Auto removal of Deleted items with multiple personal folders

[Paul Cartier]

Apart from the standard Personal folders (pst file) I have defined
several other personal folders in Outlook 2003 to accommodate mail from
different mail accounts. Each personal folder has its own Deleted Items
folder.
I have set up Outlook to "Empty the Deleted Items folder when exiting"
via Options menu.

The problem is this: mail from the main "Personal Folders" personal
folder is deleted as a result of this setting. But mail in the "Deleted
Items" folder of the "XXX_Personal_Folder" or the "YYY_Personal_Folder"
is not. It just accumulates there and has to be deleted manually.

does anyone have a solution to this problem please ?

P.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

As you have discovered, only the default deleted items folder will be emptied upon closing. You will need to empty the others manually or you could write a little VBA to do this for you.

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After furious head scratching, Paul Cartier asked:

| Apart from the standard Personal folders (pst file) I have defined
| several other personal folders in Outlook 2003 to accommodate mail
| from different mail accounts. Each personal folder has its own
| Deleted Items folder.
| I have set up Outlook to "Empty the Deleted Items folder when exiting"
| via Options menu.
|
| The problem is this: mail from the main "Personal Folders" personal
| folder is deleted as a result of this setting. But mail in the
| "Deleted Items" folder of the "XXX_Personal_Folder" or the
| "YYY_Personal_Folder" is not. It just accumulates there and has to be
| deleted manually.
|
| does anyone have a solution to this problem please ?
|
| P.

 

[Paul Cartier]

OK .. thanks ...
so it cannot be done by a standard Outlook setting.
I know zilch about VBA ...
2 questions:
1. Would you have a bit of stub VBA code to do this for the XXX_Personal
_FOlder ?
2. how do I plug a custom VBA script into Outlook so that it is
triggered at exit time ?

P.