By default, when you send a message to a recipient in Outlook, the message moves from the Outbox to the Sent Items folder. If you use Outlook for business, this is handy when you need to revisit messages that you previously sent.
If you use Outlook for emailing friends and family only, you may find no use for storing messages in the Sent Items folder. Instead, it may become a nuisance having to clean the messages out of the folder. If so, you configure Outlook so messages are not stored in the Sent Items folder as described below:
- Within Outlook, click Options from the Tools menu.
- From the Preferences tab, click the E-mail Options button.
- Under Message handling, remove the check beside the Save copies of messages in Sent Items folder.
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