The Delete action (DeleteDef) physically deletes the selected elements.

Click the Advanced button in the Options area to open the advanced configuration settings.

By default, the action performs a (Secure) deletion of the elements. "Secure deletion" means that ELOxc checks whether the element is marked as "archived" and uses the ELO GUID to find the element in the repository. The element can only be deleted if it has already been archived.

You can also configure deletion based on the element name (in Exchange, this is the subject line). The following example only deletes elements if the name starts with "RE:":

This action can also be used to permanently delete file attachments.

To do this, set the "Element" parameter to "attachment", which deletes all file attachments without having to make any other entries. As with deleting whole elements, you can also configure filters to additionally check the name of a file attachment, but it is only possible to delete those file attachments that correspond to the configured patterns.