How to delete mail from Microsoft Outlook 2007
Are you using Microsoft Outlook 2007 for your email client and using IMAP Protocol. Have you tried deleting mails from your Microsoft Outlook 2007 and been frustated that your email doesn’t go right away after you delete from Inbox. In IMAP, there isn’t any Deleted items folder. If you delete your mails, the mails will just be marked as strikeout and actually the emails gets never deleted from the server. This could be really annoying if you get couple of hundreds of emails every day from your monitoring softwares and you have to scroll down all the emails to find any other important emails and when you delete the emails that is not necessary and it is still in the inbox without being deleted and just marked as strikeout.
Dont be frustated, there is a way to get your messages deleted from the mail server and you will not see the strikeout in your Microsoft Outlook too. The answer for deleting email from Microsoft Outlook 2007 is Purging.
Go To EDIT and then PURGE and click on PURGE OPTION
There you will see
When you switch to another folder, the items marked for deletion in the original folder are permanently deleted on the server. Items will not be permanently removed when switching folders offline.
Click on the CheckBox and you can now delete email in Microsoft Outlook 2007 with IMAP protocol.
