Import/Export of items for archiving

[Plegron]

I'm using Outlook 2003 with Exchange Server 2003 on SBS 2003 R2.

I keep items from the last 12 months in my mail store. After this I use
Outlook's Auto Archive to export the items to an Archive.pst file. This
works fine, but the Archive.pst file is now becoming very large and I'd like
to split it into smaller ones spanning shorter time frames. To do this I'd
expect to be able to simply export/import items with the required date
range, but Outlook appears to use the date in a 'Last edited' field rather
than the Sent or Received field.

The problem with this is that when I've upgraded Outlook (or maybe it's
some other event involving importing items from a PST file) the last Edited
filed has become changed to the time of the event. This may be the reason I
have some items still in folders with dates well outside the Auto Archive
settings?

Is there ways to work-around this problem?

Can Outlook be set to use the Sent/Received date of items for Archiving and
Import/Export?

 

[Gordon]

The problem with this is that when I've upgraded Outlook (or maybe it's
some other event involving importing items from a PST file) the last
Edited filed has become changed to the time of the event.

That's correct. That is one of the things that happens when you import a pst
file. There is NO NEED to use the import function when accessing a pst
file - you just open it. that will keep the correct Modified Date on each
item. Importing also does lots of other nasty things if you are unlicky,
which is why it is neither recommended nor neccessary...

 

[DL]

Archive works on modified date. You can either archive the archive data file
to a new archive, using modified dates, or create a new archive and manually
move data.
PS Niether Import or Export is reccommended for native outlook data.