How to purge emails without using Outlook 2010?

Question

I was handed a bounce email server that went ignored for a while, it now has over 1 million emails, so if I try to Delete All, it will just move them to the deleted folder, which will crash Outlook (I tried it once when it was around 700k emails).

How do I delete all these emails without using Outlook 2010? Is there a folder they're stored in that I can purge? Is there another way around this?

Answer 1

You can try do to the following:

1. Open Outlook, right-click your Inbox and select Properties.
2. Open AutoArchive tab and set Archive this folder using these settings check.
3. Set Clean out items older than 1 Days.
4. Set Permanently delete old items check.
5. Click OK.
6. Exit Outlook.

Now AutoArchive will hopefully delete all items in your Inbox older than 1 day.

One more way:

1. Open Outlook right-click your Inbox and select Delete All while holding Shift key down.
2. Confirm deletion.

Another way:

1. Download Microsoft's MFCMAPI tool.
2. Run the tool, open Session -> Logon and logon to your profile.
3. Double-click the storage with millions of mails and follow the Root -> IPM_SUBTREE -> Inbox.
4. Right-click the Inbox and select Advanced -> Empty items and subfolders from folder.
5. Optional, only for Exchange Server account: set Hard Deletion check and click OK.

Answer 2

I'm not sure if I completely understand your request but surely highlighting all the emails within outlook and then using Shift+Delete will simply delete them all without the emails going to your deleted items folder.