How to Permanently Delete Emails from Outlook 365 Account at Once?

Direct Solution to Delete Email From all Mailboxes Office 365

Are you still wondering how to permanently delete emails from Outlook 365? Well, you can’t select email one by one and erase them. It’s not only boring but also a hectic task for any person. Thus, the best workaround is to use automated software for this. BitRecover EmailRaser Software is a multi-featured application that gives the ability to users to delete all emails messages from Office 365 at once.

How to Permanently Delete Emails from Outlook 365?

Before starting the working steps, take a quick trial of the free demo version. It is free of cost plus you can also evaluate the tool’s functionality.

Steps to Delete Email from all Mailboxes Office 365:

1. After downloading the tool to permanently delete emails from Outlook 365, you will see the starting screen as shown in the screenshot.
2. Now, choose Office 365 from the email source list given in the tool. Then, enter the email account details of your Office 365 account and press the Login button. If you are logging in using Office 365 Admin account, then please enable “I am Admin” option.

   

3. Thereafter, the tool will start fetching all emails from your Office 365 account. Now, enable the desired mailboxes of Outlook 365 that you wish to delete.

   

4. Under the Filter Options section, you can also pick some specific emails which you wish to permanently delete emails from Outlook 365.

   

5. Lastly, click the Delete button and the tool will give a warning message saying that ‘email messages once deleted cannot be retrieved back’. To continue, please tap the Yes button.

   

6. The tool will start the process to delete email from all mailboxes Office 365.

   

7. You will receive a confirmation message that the deletion process of email messages has been completed successfully.

   

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Manual Solution for How to Delete Emails in Office 365

Here, we are mentioning few manual techniques to permanently delete emails from Outlook 365:

• Delete Emails Manually
  The most common way to delete messages is to select them one by one or all at once and press Shift + Delete. Outlook will ask you to confirm the action with a pop-up. Click Yes to confirm.

  Or

  You can select emails, press Shift, and click the Delete button on the Home tab. Click Yes to delete messages permanently.
  

• Remove the Confirmation Prompt
  In this method, we will make some changes in the background so that Outlook won’t ask before deleting messages and it will be easier for you to delete email from all mailboxes Office 365 without any interruption.
  1. Open Outlook, click the File > Option available on the left panel of the screen.
     
  2. In the new window, select the Advanced tab. Now, under the Other category you will notice that the ‘Prompt for confirmation before permanently deleting items’ is marked.
     

• Empty Deleted Items Folder
  Once you delete emails from Outlook with the simple Delete option, they are moved to the Deleted Items folder of the mailbox. To permanently delete emails from Outlook 365, you need to empty that folder too. To perform this, follow the below-mentioned steps.
  1. Open Outlook and right-click on the Deleted Items folder and select Empty Folder from the menu.
     
  2. When prompted for confirmation, click on the Yes button to delete email from all mailboxes Office 365.
     
  3. Note: Alternately, you can select the Deleted Items folder and then click on the Folder tab. There you will see Empty Folder option, click on the option, and confirm the deletion once again.
     

• Empty Deleted Items when Exiting Outlook
  It may be a hectic task to empty the Deleted Item folder again and again. To solve this problem, you can change the Outlook settings so that every time when you exit Outlook, your Deleted Item folder is emptied automatically. To perform this action, follow the below-mentioned steps:
  1. Open Outlook and click the File > Options available on the left side of the screen to permanently delete emails from Outlook 365.
     
  2. Once you click Options, an Outlook Options window will appear. Select the Advanced category. In the section Outlook Start and Exit, check the box ‘Empty Deleted Items folder when exiting Outlook.’ Click OK once you are done and the changes will be applied to your Outlook profile.
     

So, these are a few tricks on how you can delete emails permanently from your Outlook profile.