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Emails received by day

I need to find a way to create a record of actual emails received by day for work. I’ve found a way to do this using the search folders but it doesn’t quite work for us because we delete emails as we deal with them, so the search folder only shows the number of emails currently in the inbox – not how many we’ve received. The deleted folder also gets cleared throughout the day so these can’t be included in the search either. I’ve also used the import to Access which I found through this site, and although that’s great it also only shows what’s in the inbox at any given time.

is there a way to actually count the number of emails per day even if we delete as we go along? Is that something that would need to be done on the server side?

Many thanks