Setup Outlook to Delete Mails from Server
Configuring your email client: Delete Mails off Server
This article will assist you in setting up Microsoft Outlook to remove a copy of the messages on the server, once it is downloaded to your computer.
- Open Microsoft Outlook. Once open, click on Tools > E-mail Accounts.
- Select View or change existing e-mail accounts and click Next.
- Highlight the account you would like to edit and click the button which says Change.
- On the next screen, which contains the incoming and outgoing server information, click the button which says More Settings.
- Click on the tab which says Advanced.
- Remove the tick mark next to "Remove from server after ___ days"
- Remove the tick mark next to "Remove from server when deleted from 'Deleted Items"
- Remove the tick mark next to Leave a copy of messages on the server.
- Now click OK, then Next, then Finish.
- You have now set Microsoft Outlook to remove a copy of the messages on the server, once it has downloaded to your computer.