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Automadicly delete certain Sent mail?

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I have the Bcc option on, so everything I send gets Bcc-ed to an email. I was just wondering if there was a way to have that Bcc email be automatically deleted from the Sent folder, after it was sent?

I have the Bcc option on, so everything I send gets Bcc-ed to an email. I was just wondering if there was a way to have that Bcc email be automatically deleted from the Sent folder, after it was sent?

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More information is needed. When you send a message with a BCC, there is no additional message in your sent folder, just the one copy. Please share more on your objective, as I may be misunderstanding.

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david said

More information is needed. When you send a message with a BCC, there is no additional message in your sent folder, just the one copy. Please share more on your objective, as I may be misunderstanding.

oh dear I seem to have confused Bcc with Automatic forwarding; so I guess what I meant to ask was, is there a way to delete the e-mail address I have auto forwarding to, after its been sent?

I.E. I received an a new e-mail, auto forwarding sends it to backup@email, have backup@email be automatically deleted from the Sent box folder?

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Well,I'm not aware of such a feature, but you could periodically do search for the address in sent folder and delete them.

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david said

Well,I'm not aware of such a feature, but you could periodically do search for the address in sent folder and delete them.

hmm, in that case is there a feature that can automatically delete everything in the Sent folder, after a set period of time?

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No, that is not a feature. However, if your intent is to not keep messages in Sent folder, just untick that feature in accountsetting.

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david said

No, that is not a feature. However, if your intent is to not keep messages in Sent folder, just untick that feature in accountsetting.

Thanks, but I been looking at the Message Filters and was wondering if there was a way to set up a Filter that can automatically MOVE an email from the Sent folder to Trash? Or do Filters only work for the Inbox? ergo incoming mail, not outgoing?

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Yes, that would work. It would be a filter you manually run,.