I’ve recently stared monitoring a mailbox for errors on a website. When an error occurs it sends an email to a Tech Support mail box. When I check through this box there are several emails that are from known sources and I like to clean the box down. When I do this however all the deleted items end up in my own mailboxes deleted items folder! This is not what I want to happen.

There is a solution to this however that requires a little bit of registry modification. If you set values as outlined below the deleted items will end up in the box of the person you deleted it from.

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\xx.x\Outlook\Options\General
Value name: DelegateWastebasketStyle
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 4

Note the xx.x should relate to the version of outlook you are using. For Outlook 2010 this is 14.0, for outlook 2007 this is 12.0

Credit for this goes to: http://www.msoutlook.info/question/130

UPDATE:

There is a similar fix for sent items. If you follow the instructions as listed in this MS KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972148

For outlook 2010 see: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/outlook/thread/4d38fdb9-e85b-4eac-b1b1-553e01bf168e