Outlook macro to permanently delete items in junk email folder
If you are anything like me you hate using the mouse to right click on your
Outlook Junk E-mail Folder to select Empty "Junk E-mail" Folder and then on
top of that you have to click Yes when it asks you "Are you sure you want to
permanently delete all the items and subfolder in the "Junk E-mail" folder?". I
hate doing that and I'm more of a hotkey kind of person so I wanted some way to
do this with a hotkey.
A while ago I remember KC
Lemson posted a macro
to delete the items in your Junk E-mail folder, which works great except that it
just puts the items from the Junk E-mail folder into the Deleted Items folder
where as I wanted to permanently delete them. I modified her macro so that it
permanently deletes the items from the Junk E-mail folder (well sort of).
In the Outlook Object Model there is no direct way to permanently delete an
item, so I found this
post which suggested we just delete the item twice, once from the original
folder and once from the Deleted Items folder, which seems to be a pretty simple
work around. Anyway here is the macro code:
Public Sub EmptyJunkEmailFolder()
Dim outApp As Outlook.Application
Dim junkFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim junkItem, deleteItem As Object
Dim entryID As String
Set outApp = CreateObject("outlook.application")
Set junkFolder = outApp.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(olFolderJunk)
For Each junkItem In junkFolder.Items
entryID = junkItem.entryID ' Store item entry id
junkItem.Delete ' Delete from junk mail folder
' To permanently delete item find and delete from deleted items
Set deleteItem = outApp.Session.GetItemFromID(entryID)
deleteItem.Delete
Next
Set junkItem = Nothing
Set deleteItem = Nothing
Set junkFolder = Nothing
Set outApp = Nothing
End Sub
Once you setup this macro you can add a toolbar button and set the accelator
key to something unique and then you have a hotkey to permanently delete the
items from your Junk E-mail folder. If you need help doing any of those things
take a look at KC's macro
post which has some good information and links on how to do those
things.
Also incase anyone is in search for the Outlook or Office Object Model
Documentation here
is a link that tells you how to find it (it took me longer than I care to
say to find this ;).
UPDATE: This
msdn article talks you through how to create a personal ditigal
signature so Outlook doesn't complain every time you run the macro.