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In Outlook 2000 is it possible to permanently delete from a spam folder (by
McAfee) rather than it going into my deleted items folder first? I would
love to be able to still hit the "X" icon in my toolbar, but have it be smart
enough to know if I'm in the McAfee Spam folder then just completely delete.
Thanks
Just remember that using Shift+Del is a *permanent* delete. Items in
the Deleted Items folder really haven't yet been deleted. They're just
in another folder. For items really marked as deleted, Outlook won't
show them. When compaction is ran, all delete-marked items are
physically purged from the message store and are thereafter no longer
available. Even if compaction has not yet been executed, retrieving
delete-marked items requires utilities that are not part of Outlook. So
be damn sure when you permanently delete an item that is what you really
want to do.
Doesn't OL2000 include the auto-archive function? If so, why not enable
the global auto-archive function (under Tools->Options->Other), set it
to 1 day (so it runs everyday), and configure the local properties for
the Spam folder so items older than N days get permanently deleted? I
have auto-archiving on my Junk folder set to permanently deleted items
older than a week. If you use Outlook many times every day, you could
shorten this expiration to, say, 3 days. The suspect mails go into the
Junk folder and I have up to 3 days to check for any false positives.
Also disable the Preview pane in the Junk folder and use AutoPreview to
see the first few lines as plain-text only. Then if you see a Subject
and sender that might be a false positive, you can see a text portion of
their message to determine if it really isn't spam.
