Microsoft Outlook: Configuring the Delete Operation?

Microsoft Outlook: Configuring the Delete Operation?

I've been using Microsoft Outlook for many years now. I like to keep all the e-mails I receive, never delete anything (I receive 50-200 e-mails a day). For the purpose of efficiency, what I do is delete (i.e. click the "Delete" button on my keyboard) every e-mail I receive that does not require special treatment or filing. Once a week or so I copy all the "Deleted Items" folder to a big folder I have called "All Non-Filed Mail". If I encounter a spam e-mail or some other mail that "really" requires deletion, I just use Shift-Delete.

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"I don't know what kind of percentage of mail that ends up in the All Non-Filed Mail folder. But given that this percentage is higher than mail that gets sorted (could also be viable regardless of percentage), then you could consider creating a rule to store all received mail into the All Non-Filed Mail folder, and just sort / label all other mail. All unprocessed mail would then be marked as unread, and all you have to do is file away those mails that need filing and not touch those that don't

I assume you have to read / open / sort all mail before taking any action, so this way you remove the need to delete, and then move all non--filed mail, and the obvious hazard of the ""delete all""-scenario."