How come when I delete emails it puts a line through the email?

[Deleting unwanted messages!]

I am using Outlook and when I press delete for the emails I don't want a line
appears to go through the message and it does not go into the recycle bin?

 

[Vanguard]

"Deleting unwanted messages!" <Deleting unwanted
[email protected]> wrote in message

I am using Outlook and when I press delete for the emails I don't want
a line
appears to go through the message and it does not go into the recycle
bin?

Well, that is how IMAP works (you are *not* using POP3). IMAP leaves
the messages on the mail host so you can retrieve them from multiple
locations (i.e., you can login from different places to the same account
and read your e-mails). The message is only *marked* as deleted but YOU
have to actually purge the message from the mail host. Use the Purge
command in Outlook to physically remove the delete-marked mails in your
mailbox. Then Outlook will send the delete commands to the mail host
that will then actually remove them.

 

[Ferdie]

How about just "greying it out" and remove that line through the deleted
email. Is this possible?

Ferdie

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The line is just a setting for the current view. You can try modifying that view's Automatic Formatting settings.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers