use vba or vb to permanently delete unopened deleted items

[bbxrider]

about 1/2 of my email now is junk spam that i just delete but it still ends
up in the deleted folder wasting space and search time, etc.
i would like to write a hopefully quick program to permanently delete all
unopened mail in the default outlook deleted folder, before i spend too much
time, just trying to find out if its technically possible and perhaps some
quick hints on how to go about it.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

The Outlook Delete methods only send items to the Deleted Items
folder. To achieve the equivalent of a Shift+Delete (hard delete that
bypasses Deleted Items) in code you have to use CDO 1.21 code to get
the item as a CDO Message and then use CDO's Delete method to hard
delete the item.

See www.cdolive.com/cdo5.htm for CDO code samples.

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Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Lead Author, Professional Outlook 2000 Programming, Wrox Press
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