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zipswich
Jul 10, 2026Brass Contributor
Unable to delete emails
On web Outlook, everything in the primary email account behaves as expected. However, emails in a shared mailbox cannot be deleted, even though everything else in the shared mailbox works fine (i.e....
Jul 15, 2026
Besides having Full Access to the mailbox, check whether also folder-level permissions have been set. These can conflict with the Full Access permissions when you open the mailbox as a secondary mailbox. When opening the mailbox in a separate window, the Full Access permissions are used and the folder-level permissions are ignored.
Of particular interest are the permissions on the root folder, the folder that you are deleting from and the Deleted Items folder.
- zipswichJul 15, 2026Brass Contributor
The deletion started to work magically two days ago. I did not do anything because I gave up. I have no idea what happened to remedy this.