use vba or vb to permanently delete unopened deleted items

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bbxrider

about 1/2 of my email now is junk spam that i just delete but it still ends
up in the deleted folder wasting space and search time, etc.
i would like to write a hopefully quick program to permanently delete all
unopened mail in the default outlook deleted folder, before i spend too much
time, just trying to find out if its technically possible and perhaps some
quick hints on how to go about it.
 
The Outlook Delete methods only send items to the Deleted Items
folder. To achieve the equivalent of a Shift+Delete (hard delete that
bypasses Deleted Items) in code you have to use CDO 1.21 code to get
the item as a CDO Message and then use CDO's Delete method to hard
delete the item.

See www.cdolive.com/cdo5.htm for CDO code samples.

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Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Lead Author, Professional Outlook 2000 Programming, Wrox Press
Lead Author, Beginning VB 6 Application Development, Wrox Press
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