Thanks Michael,

No, the emails are gone. On other platforms like my iPhone then you can
tell it to move deleted items to a selected folder like "Trash" but Outllook
just throws them in the bit-bucket. Its really poor design but I think
microsoft really only care about exchenge support and they do the bare
minimum to support POP and IMAP. There are other posts about how to write
vba to do this.

Incidentally, can you see if its possible to make this code run faster?
don't know enoutgh about VBA to speed it up myself.

Keith