Hi, Frank. It’s pop, not imap. I didn’t think to say that, so sorry. Does
that suggest something different?
Thanks much!
Al
From: vibug-support-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <vibug-support-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Frankie Ventura
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2020 12:01 AM
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Subject: [vibug-support] Re: another Outlook question
Al, I’m not sure what type of e-mail you are using (POP, IMAP, Exchange) but I
am going to guess based on what you said it is IMAP> If so does this help:
https://www.lifewire.com/purge-deleted-messages-from-imap-outlook-1173703
Frank
On Nov 14, 2020, at 10:50 PM, Al and Masha Sten-Clanton
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Hi again. I’m writing to ask a question I meant to put during the meeting
today.
Masha called Microsoft Accessibility on Thursday to see about getting e-mail
from another account—or maybe it’s a sub-account. The guy set up a new
profile, which is good.
We wanted this Windows machine to be our shared computer. We wanted the
messages this machine takes down from the server via Outlook to delete them
automatically from that server. The Microsoft accessibility guy said that we
can’t exactly do that. Rather, the stuff we take down is synchronized with the
stuff on the server, and messages will be deleted from the server when we
delete them on the computer. I think I found out today that stuff I deleted
using this Windows machine remained there for my Linux box to bring down, but
this is only sometimes true.
I know that in Thunderbird, I can set it to delete messages from the server as
soon as I bring them down. I’m virtually sure that we used to be able to do
this using Outlook, although our use of Thunderbird on our previous Windows
machine for a long time means my memory may be wrong on that.
Is there a setting in Outlook by which we can delete messages from the server
immediately upon bringing them down to this machine? Often, messages remain in
our inbox for quite a while, mostly but not always ones for Masha. At least
with a couple of our outlook profiles, there’s no good purpose in continuing to
have messages from weeks, months, and years ago taking up server space.
I note that I tried to figure this out some weeks ago, but I get dazed and
confused crawling around this stuff whose predecessor programs and menus I
understood a lot better once upon a time.
Again, thank you for any help. I will not often ask for help twice here within
a few minutes, but it seems necessary at the moment.
Thanks!
Al
