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Greg Brown - 20 Sep 2007 21:48 GMT

I'm looking for some way using rules to automatically expire an incoming
message that meets certain criteria. Can anyone point me in the right
direction? I have a ton of email that comes in daily that I need to
see, but not archive. If I could just automatically set it to expire 1
week from the date of arrival, that would prevent Archive from filling
up my archive with stuff that's only pertinent for about a week.

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Brian Tillman - 21 Sep 2007 03:36 GMT

> I'm looking for some way using rules to automatically expire an
> incoming message that meets certain criteria. Can anyone point me in
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> from filling up my archive with stuff that's only pertinent for about
> a week.

If you can design a rule that will move the messages to another folder, use
that, then modify autoarchive on that folder to mark messages as expired or
simply delete them after your desired time.

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Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook] - 21 Sep 2007 07:13 GMT

Here's a VBA sample for setting the expiry time manually:
http://www.vboffice.net/sample.html?mnu=2&lang=en&smp=59&cmd=showitem&pub=6

You can add a button to the toolbars (for folder and/or messages) and call
the macro with that button.

I use that macro myself a lot of times daily and it's really helpful! For me
a default value of eight weeks is fine. You can change that, of course.

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Am Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:48:26 -0400 schrieb Greg Brown:

> I'm looking for some way using rules to automatically expire an incoming
> message that meets certain criteria. Can anyone point me in the right
> direction? I have a ton of email that comes in daily that I need to
> see, but not archive. If I could just automatically set it to expire 1
> week from the date of arrival, that would prevent Archive from filling
> up my archive with stuff that's only pertinent for about a week.

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