Thanks Judy & Ben,
I take it from your responses that there is some all but obscure property in
Outlook messages that sets an expiry time? That sounds OK, I have run an
archive now and I can still find everything so that is good. Yes I do have a
full backup routine in place.
Thanks again and Judy I will check out your website, especially seeing it is
an Aussie one.

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Thanks
David G
Albury, Australia


"Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook)" wrote:

G'day David

you can tell whether any emails have expired as they'll be grey with a
strikeout through them. But Ben's right - it's very unlikely that you'll
have any expired emails. It's a function I teach people to use for emails
that have a short "life" eg letting the team know that tomorrow's casual
clothes day should expire tomorrow.

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"Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote in message
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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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"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