Hard delete an Open Message

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Guest

I know that you can select a message or messages in your inbox and do a
shift+delete to permanently delete a message and bypass deleted items. My
question is why you can't do that to a message you are reading. When you
have the message open and you do a shift+delete, it goes into deleted items.
Is there a way to permanently delete the message while you have it open?
Thanks for any suggestions you can give me!
DeSha
 
R

Roady [MVP]

You can't hard delete because the file is in use; you have it open.

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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I know that you can select a message or messages in your inbox and do a
shift+delete to permanently delete a message and bypass deleted items. My
question is why you can't do that to a message you are reading. When you
have the message open and you do a shift+delete, it goes into deleted items.
Is there a way to permanently delete the message while you have it open?
Thanks for any suggestions you can give me!
DeSha
 

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