Re: Outlook 2003 archive feature doesn't work

From: Ryan (Ryan_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:27:03 -0800

Do the messages need to have *all* of the properties you mention, or is one
sufficient? Outlook is able to arrange the messages by date in the
"Received" column, it seems that this should map to the Received property.
Choosing one message at random, it has several "Received" headers with the
correct date as well as the "Date" header. (Interestingly, this message was
actually sent from Microsoft, so I'm pretty sure Outlook was the sending
program as well!)

I also tried toggling the "Include items with Do Not Archive set" flag in
the archive dialog--that didn't change the behavior. It seems that I am
unable to archive up to half (or more) of the messages I've received--that
seems like far too many.

Thanks for you help,

Ryan

"neo [mvp outlook]" wrote:

> 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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