IMAP - Disable "Purge Deleted Messages" button / function in Outlook2003

[grumpyhumpy]

Hi all,

Hope someone can help me on this one - tnx in advance.

We have a shared exchange account which is used by a few people via
IMAP access trough their Outlook.

We do not want people to be able to "Purge Deleted Messages" so I am
looking for a solution to disable / hide the "Purge Deleted Messages"
function in the Edit Menu.

Does anybody know if this is possible or if there is some other way of
controlling otherwise, what people deleted? To move them into the
deleted item folder of this shared account or similar???

Tnx a lot in advance
Regards

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You can disable any menu or toolbar command, such as Reply to All, by using a Group Policy Object. The article at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402401033.aspx explains how; look at the section on "Disabling menu items and command bar buttons."

If you don't want to write your own code to recurse the Explorer.CommandBars
and Inspector.CommandBars collections to get the IDs that you need to be able to disable certain toolbar and menu commands, you can use the Outlook Spy tool from http://www.dimastr.com. I also have a complete list in the appendices to my "Configuring Outlook 2003" book (see signature).

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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