Is there any solution to this going offline before deleting our messages and
Sent/Deleted Items/then Compressing, and then emptying the Recycle Bin?

What on earth are we supposed to do with our daily emails being emptied out
of our Recycle Bins? They're accumulating on our hard drive, and taking up
space. Can we find them and...oh, hec, no, I realize that! This is
ridiculous. Who in MS thought up this doozie in the latest OE6 updates? I'm
no longer going to let MS automatically download updates to my computer.
Sheesh, this takes far too much of my time. I'm hearing the same hue and cry
from many other MS users, and now former ones, who have left IE and OE.

There is no way I'll trust Vista, now. I'll hold for a while longer with XP
Pro. But, why do we have to go to all of this trouble to clean up our
emails?
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Worry doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrows. It empties today of it’s
strength.