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I dislike Outlook for this reason.  2007 (but not earlier), supports 
auto purge, so in effect it's the same thing.

http://www.jasondunn.com/outlook-2007-auto-purge-rocks-247
http://antonperez.com/2007/06/28/outlook-2007-imap-auto-purge-option/

John Valenti wrote:
> hi,
>
> I have someone using Outlook 2007 to access mail.msu.edu via IMAP. 
> When she deletes a message, it is marked for deletion on the server. 
> She would prefer it be moved to a deleted message folder on the local 
> computer (or perhaps on the server).
>
> I thought we used to do this with Outlook 2003 or 2000, but 
> researching it, people seem to say Outlook can't be configured that 
> way when using IMAP.
>
> Anybody have a work around for this?
>
> It seemed like it might be possible to create a button that would move 
> the selected message to a Deleted Messages folder, but I wanted to 
> check with NAG before digging into that deeper.
>
> -John
>
> PS - I don't think there needs to be anything special about the 
> deleted messages folder. It could just be a regular folder, no further 
> processing would be required on those messages.  She just wants to be 
> able to find them if they were deleted accidently.
>