Re: Outlook 2003 archive feature doesn't work

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From: neo [mvp outlook] (neo_at_online.mvps.org)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:47:05 -0800

The archive engine looks at several properties to determine if an item is
eligible for archiving. These properties are Sent Date, Received Date, Last
Modified Date, and the to do not archive bit. Any date that is empty/null
will be treated as 1/1/4501 and never be eligible for archiving.

"Ryan" <Ryan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:15C1B401-D8E8-405C-93F8-0D9205B1D729@microsoft.com...
> The archive feature of Outlook 2003 isn't working properly for me. After
> running an AutoArchive, many or all of the messages in my mail folders
> remain. I tried manually archiving a particular folder to no avail. I
> even
> tried setting the "older than" date to a date in the future and all of the
> messages stayd in place. None of the messages in this folder had been
> modified in any way since early 2004.

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