Imap Delete and Purge in one click

[wayne]

Does anyone know how to delete a email message in a Imap
folder without having to go
Delete then Purge

Email downloaded from a pop server reaches your Outlook
inbox and you can click delete and its gone or at least
it goes to the deleted folder.

With Imap you have to kill it twice before it actually
gets deleted out of your Imap mailbox.

wayne

 

[*Vanguard*]

"wayne" said in news:[email protected]:

Does anyone know how to delete a email message in a Imap
folder without having to go
Delete then Purge

Email downloaded from a pop server reaches your Outlook
inbox and you can click delete and its gone or at least
it goes to the deleted folder.

With Imap you have to kill it twice before it actually
gets deleted out of your Imap mailbox.

wayne

As I understand Outlook's support for IMAP, deleting a message only marks it
as deleted so it appears lined out. You still see the message but with a
line through it. Outlook is remaining sync'ed to what is still on your IMAP
server. You deleting it in the local store for Outlook doesn't eradicate it
from your IMAP server. So you need to have your client issue a purge
command back to the IMAP server to get rid of the copy there. Outlook
doesn't do that automatically (although most of us users wish an option was
provided that let us enable "Delete and Purge" instead of just "Delete
locally"). Outlook Express will send a purge command when you change
folders. Outlook does not. You might want to customize your toolbars to
include a button for sending the purge command to your IMAP server. I don't
if there is a means of customizing the view to excluded delete-marked items
(i.e., those with a line through them).

 

[Guest]

Thats what I figured. It's not a big deal just a extra
step. I do have a setting turned on to hide the email
after I delete it from my Inbox such that it appears that
it is deleted versus still there with a line thru it. Now
I just do a purge before Exiting out of Outlook.

wayne