Keeping only the most recent sent item in an email thread.

[Guest]

Dear all,

If you send say 5 emails to a friend and they reply with 5 emails is there
any way to keep only the most recently sent email in your sent items and
delete the 4 old ones. For my settings the most recent one has all the
history of the other 4 anyway so I only need the most recent and would like
it if Outlook could automatically delete the other 4. I can write a small
..Net utility program to do this but surely there's a setting or a rule for
this somewhere as it would help in keeping mailboxes sizes much smaller.
Similarly for received and deleted items if possible.

Regards,
Wannabe

 

[Andreas Roeder]

Dear all,

If you send say 5 emails to a friend and they reply with 5 emails is there
any way to keep only the most recently sent email in your sent items and
delete the 4 old ones. For my settings the most recent one has all the
history of the other 4 anyway so I only need the most recent and would like
it if Outlook could automatically delete the other 4. I can write a small
.Net utility program to do this but surely there's a setting or a rule for
this somewhere as it would help in keeping mailboxes sizes much smaller.
Similarly for received and deleted items if possible.

Regards,
Wannabe

HI Wannabe,
no there is no such a rule.
You have the chance to enable the function in tools > options > preference
tab > email options.

 

[Guest]

Hi Andreas,

Do you mean the setting "Save copies of messages in Sent Items folder"? If
I was to enable that setting I wouldn't get any saved sent messages. I don't
want to get rid of all sent items, just duplicates of superseeded items. I
have Outlook 2002. Is there another setting you are referring to?

Regards,
Paul