Empty Deleted Items and then compact your folders.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until
the compacting is completed.

Unless someone has a tool to read from the HDD, they will never find them.

If you are worried about the FBI or CIA, then you would have to completely
wipe your HDD clean and to a reinstall of your OS.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"s" wrote in message
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can someone tell me how to PERMANENTLY delete emails?
I mean PERMANENTLY ... no one can read them EVER after deletion