02 July 2009

Make Outlook Connector sync deleted messages

Microsoft Outlook Connector will not sync deleted messages.  Deleting messages in Microsoft Outlook will not delete these messages from your Hotmail/Live Mail web interface.  Windows Live Support will direct you to the Microsoft Outlook Connector Support team.  There is no solution for this.  Perhaps a new version of Outlook Connector will finally fix this.  Until then I found a work-around that is not clean, but it works.

 

1. Manage folders in Windows Live Mail

step1

2. Create a New Folder

step2

3. Name it how you want

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4. When using Microsoft Outlook “Move to Folder” instead of deleting

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5. Back in Windows Live Mail you can delete the folder.

step5

 

While this in no way is a clean solution it is faster than the alternative of deleting all the messages a second time after Outlook Connector does not synchronize them.  If you are moving email to say a Gmail account you will have to copy them to your Gmail account instead then move them to your temp delete folder.

 

Know a better solution?  Share it in the comments.