Auto-delete from Archive in Outlook 2003?

[FatFreddy]

Outlook lets you automatically set an age for messages that get
archived. In my case, auto-archive runs every day and automatically
moves all messages older than 2 weeks to the archive. But now I have
well over 10,000 messages in my archive, dating back to 2005! Is
there a way to set up the archive to only store files that are a year
old or less, and delete the rest?

Thanks!

 

[Brian Tillman]

Outlook lets you automatically set an age for messages that get
archived. In my case, auto-archive runs every day and automatically
moves all messages older than 2 weeks to the archive. But now I have
well over 10,000 messages in my archive, dating back to 2005! Is
there a way to set up the archive to only store files that are a year
old or less, and delete the rest?

Why not just rename the archive file every year and let Outlook create a new
one?

 

[FatFreddy]

Why not just rename the archive file every year and let Outlook create a new

one?

I was just looking for a set-it-and-forget-it feature... basically the
same as the auto-archive feature. Something that would run every day
and trim off the excess baggage automatically. It seems like a
logical progression since the feature already exists for the main
Inbox. Instead of archiving the old messages to a folder, just skim
them off into the trash.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I was just looking for a set-it-and-forget-it feature... basically the
same as the auto-archive feature. Something that would run every day
and trim off the excess baggage automatically. It seems like a
logical progression since the feature already exists for the main
Inbox. Instead of archiving the old messages to a folder, just skim
them off into the trash.

I don't know if you can set up autoarchiving on an archive PST (I've never
tried), but I don't know why you couldn't. I think, though, you'd have to
modify each folder and choose the autoarchive options to delete messages
older than a certain age.