Auto Archive deletes messages

[David Benedict]

Hello All,

A couple months ago the CFO of our company had a PST file
that was getting close to 1GB of data. So we setup the
Auto-Archive to archive everything older than 6 months.
Everything older than 6 months was moved to the Archived
Folders as expected. Today he checked the Archived
folders and some of the e-mails were missing.

By default Auto-Archive has a checkbox checked that says:
"Delete expired items (e-mail folder only)"

Is this what happened to the missing e-mails? Why is
this checked by default? Someone wanting to "Archive"
the e-mails would not want to delete them!!!

Any help you can provide would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

"Expired" is a specific property of a mail item, that can be set either by
the sender or the recipient of a message...that way, if a message is sent
about a meeting on April 15, the message can be set to "expire" after April
15 so the recipient knows it's no longer important. The message would not
be deleted automatically except if you have that checkbox checked in the
AutoArchive settings and AA is set to run on that mail folder. Does your
CEO know for a fact that he had any such messages in his mail folders?

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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