It only deletes the items if they've actually expired - a relatively
rare setting which the sender would have had to set. I'm confident that
your old newsletters will be fine.

If you're really worried about it you could always copy them into
another PST file for safekeeping or...just rely upon your backups. You
do have that data backed up, right?

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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q



"David G" wrote in message
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Hi,
I'm new to using Auto Archive, I've always just ignored the Auto Archive
prompt. I'm now wondering whether I should use it due to the ever increasing
size of my Inbox. What worries me is the option that says "Delete expired
items (e-mail folders only)". I have large numbers of newsletters that go
back for years but I don't want to delete any of them. Won't AutoArchive
just delete all these old messages? There are lots of stuff that is old that
I still refer to in my Inbox and in folders. Will AutoArchive just
robotically delete all these old items? How can I avoid this seemingly
arbitrary behaviour?
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Thanks
David G
Albury, Australia