I have set windows live mail to empty deleted emails on exit.  I have a couple of IMAP accounts and a POP3 account.  Although my Hotmail/Outlook account set up on windows live mail when I logged into it from the WLM interface so I am not sure if it is POP3 or IMAP but it behaves like IMAP.   The feature to delete emails on exit from the deleted folders  via options - mail - advance is not working with IMAP nor Hotmail/Outlook but seems okay with POP3. To delete from my IMAP accounts and Hotmail/Outlook I have to sign into them and then delete directly from the server.  Should I not be able to delete them with Windows live mail via options - mail - advance - empty deleted items folder on exit as Windows live mail signs into these accounts.  Forgive me if I am wrong but I am not an advance computer user. 

I have also stopped receiving the " No new messages received" when I check to download them if there aren't any is this because I have stopped feeds?