Did you also shorten the overall archive interval in Tools | Options | Other | AutoArchive?

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"Arturo Meneses" wrote in message ...
Dear users:
I've set my junk e-mail to delete permanently for messages older than three
days. I've done this through folders/properties/autoarchive, but it's not
working.
Any ideas?