{"id":178,"date":"2019-12-10T13:29:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T12:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=178"},"modified":"2020-03-23T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T16:48:11","slug":"automatically-delete-emails-from-the-server-in-outlook-pop-only","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/kb\/automatically-delete-emails-from-the-server-in-outlook-pop-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatically delete emails from the server in Outlook (POP only)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\">If you chose a POP configuration, e-mails will remain in your online mailbox \/ server, sometimes even if you have already deleted them in Outlook. This allows the mailbox to fill up so that you ultimately can no longer receive new e-mails.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\">You can configure Outlook not to keep a copy of your e-mails\u00a0 <\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Verwijder-e-mails-van-de-server-in-Outlook-voor-Mac-enkel-POP1-300x249.png\" alt=\"Outlook logo\" width=\"93\" height=\"77\" \/><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\">on the server, or only for a limited time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\">Is your mailbox already full? <\/span><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/kb\/how-do-i-delete-messages-if-my-mailbox-is-full-via-webmail-basic-mail\/\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\">Then first delete excess e-mails via webmail <\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\">Outlook on an Apple computer? <\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/kb\/automatically-delete-emails-from-the-server-in-outlook-for-mac-pop-only\/\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\">Use our manual for Outlook on Mac<\/span><\/a><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\"> .<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\">Follow these steps in Outlook 2013 or 2016:<\/span><\/h3>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\">Via the navigation bar at the top left, go to &#8220;File&#8221;&gt; &#8220;Account settings&#8221; and choose &#8220;Account settings&#8221; from the drop-down again.\u044c<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\">Select your mailbox and click on &#8220;change&#8221;.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\">Click in the bottom right on &#8220;More settings&#8221; and go to the &#8220;Advanced&#8221; tab.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\">Under &#8220;Delivery&#8221;, check the options &#8220;Leave a copy of messages on the server&#8221; and &#8220;Remove from server after removal from &#8216;deleted items'&#8221;. Optionally, you can also simply choose to automatically delete messages from the server after X number of days, for example after two weeks. The messages will still be on your computer but no longer on the server.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\">Click &#8220;OK&#8221; to confirm and click &#8220;Next&#8221; to check the settings. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"vertical-align: inherit\">If all goes well, your deleted emails will be deleted from your e-mail server from now on.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/90521309_572452530020741_2007085397636546560_n-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"532\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you chose a POP configuration, e-mails will remain in your online mailbox \/ server, sometimes even if you have already deleted them in Outlook. This allows the mailbox to fill up so that you ultimately can no longer receive new e-mails. You can configure Outlook not to keep a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[24],"ht-kb-tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/178\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}