Deleting the message that I am replying to.

[Hesston_Don]

When I reply to a message the original message is in the email that I am
sending.
I would like to have the original message that I have replied to
automatically deleted. In our company it is standard practice to maintain
the email with all responses in it so we do not need the original after we
reply to it.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

When I reply to a message the original message is in the email that I am
sending.
I would like to have the original message that I have replied to
automatically deleted. In our company it is standard practice to maintain
the email with all responses in it so we do not need the original after we
reply to it.

Outlook can't do that. You could write some VBA code to do it, I think.

 

[VanguardLH]

When I reply to a message the original message is in the email that I am
sending.
I would like to have the original message that I have replied to
automatically deleted. In our company it is standard practice to maintain
the email with all responses in it so we do not need the original after we
reply to it.

That is NOT likely a valid intrepetation of the company policies. The
company will want to keep ALL of its communications, not just your replies.
They may need them for legal reasons. Your reply does NOT contain the
original e-mail. Your reply, for example, will NOT contain any of the
headers of the original e-mail to show from whom it originated PLUS your
reply is an edited and likely only a partial copy of the original e-mail.

Again, the original e-mail is NOT included in your reply. Someone there
screwed up in interpreting company policy or the boob that wrote the policy
(assuming there really is one versus just a de facto practice) hasn't a clue
on how e-mail works.