How to completely delete the deleted messages from Windows mail in Windows 8?

Windows mail provides you the way to configure and easy access to your email accounts. It is very effective and time saving to use such apps to perform daily tasks such as email checking and replying necessary emails. We can use such applications like Windows mail like we use our email on email providers website. But one important thing to note about this is, it consumes space on your hard drive. Though it offers you access to your email when you are offline; sometimes you might be running out of space and you may want to free some space. Whatever the reason you can delete such unnecessary emails easily using these services.
Deleting email which you don't require will free up space on your HDD and also it will help you to improve the performance of your Windows mail. In this article we will see the steps to completely remove the Windows emails from your Windows mail app:

Steps to completely remove deleted messages from Windows mail:

1. Open the Windows mail by clicking on Start >> All Programs >> Windows Live Mail or Windows Mail icon.

2. Log in to your account and identify the message you want to delete.

3. In case you want to delete multiple emails hold the control key and select multiple messages that you want to delete.

4. You will see 'Delete' option on toolbar click on that option and your messages will be deleted.

Hold on your messages are not still completely deleted and above part can be done any person its not difficult. But after above steps your messages will be simply moved to a floder 'Deleted Messages' folder. Now we will see how to remove those messages completely from your computer in order to save some space on your hard drive. For deleting those messages from 'Deleted Folder' follow the following steps:

1. If you are using POP3 then deleted messages in above steps will be moved to 'Deleted messages' folder.  To completely remove these messages go to 'Deleted Messages' folder then click on edit and choose an option 'Empty'. This will remove all the messages from your hard drive.

2. If you are using IMAP then deleted messages won't be deleted actually and remain in message list with label 'remarked for deletion'. To completely remove such messages from your hard drive click on 'Edit' option and then select the option labeled 'Purge Deleted messages'. In this case after purging the deleted messages then can no longer be retrieved so please be careful while purging the deleted messages.

When messages are only marked for deletion and they have not been purged then you can undelete them by clicking on 'Edit' option and then by choosing the option undelete.

You can automate the task purging. That means whenever you mark messages for deletion they will be automatically purged. For this got 'Advanced Settings' tab located in 'Tools' menu and then choose 'Maintenance' option and the check the option labeled as 'Purge Deleted Messages', and your are done!

So in this article we have discussed the steps to remove the deleted messages completely from your hard drive. For more Windows tips and tricks keep in touch and tell me what you think about this in comments. Your suggestions and comments are awaited for more improvements.