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Question

windows live mail cannot empty deleted folder

Aug 22, 2015 8:44PM PDT

windows live essentials 2012, email, on windows10. Will not let me empty the deleted message folder. Keeps telling me an Unknown error has occurred. If I delete the messages from the deleted folder one at a time, when I reboot, the deleted messages are back in the deleted folder. The same thing is happening on my win7 machine. ?????

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Clarification Request
(NT) Which folder and are you using IMAP?
Aug 23, 2015 6:32AM PDT
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Yep...IMAP.
Aug 24, 2015 7:51PM PDT

IMAP

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That explains a lot.
Aug 25, 2015 7:28AM PDT

Try the web access to remove it up on the IMAP server.

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Answer
re :windows live mail cannot empty deleted folder
Aug 24, 2015 6:59PM PDT

Try to delete it using web access.