Imap Message Deletion

[Kevin Longley]

The behavior with Outlook Express, under XP, was that if a message was
deleted it would be crossed out and then you would purge the message from
the local view which would then remove it from the imap server. Under Vista
when you delete the message it is deleted , no purge required, but it is not
removed from the imap server. Any thoughts?

 

[Steve Cochran]

Check your options under Tools | Options | Advanced for the IMAP and see if
fiddling with that makes any difference. I'm replying out of ignorance, as
I don't use IMAP.

steve

 

[Fuzzy John]

It looks to me like the message is not really deleted in Windows Mail. It is
just not shown anymore after you use Delete. As you said, after using Delete
the messages are not removed from the IMAP server. But I found that if I go
in Windows Mail back to the folder that now shows empty (where I deleted the
messages) and I use Purge, this time the messages will be deleted from the
IMAP server. So this part works as it should. The problem is that Windows
Mail does not show the messages with a strike-thru as it should and as the
Help file says.

 

[Guest]

I have a message in the sent folder that I cannot delete. It seems to have
been sent properly. I even was able to move it to a folder for future
reference. Any help would be appreciated.

Thx

 

[James Matthews]

See if you are deleteing these messages by mistake

 

[Guest]

Thanks. This is really working it out. One remark, I found that "show deleted
messages" option is available only if I first uncheck
"tools/options/advanced/IMAP/use the Deleted Items folder with IMAP accounts"
option.

 

[Guest]

Your suggestion was very helpful. The deleted emails now appear with a
strikethrough line. I like to keep the deleted messages in case I have to go
back to it at a later date, but I would like it to not appear in the IMAP
Inbox folder along with my new mail. How do I get those deleted messages to
automatically go into a Deleted Messages folder?