how long does outlook 2003 save sent items?

[gatestoo]

i just looked today and all of my sent items from the past 4 years are
GONE!!! i do not use archiving, and i have checked my old archive folder for
them, they are not there.

any help would be much appreciated

- r

 

[Brian Tillman]

i just looked today and all of my sent items from the past 4 years are
GONE!!!

Then you deleted them somehow or are hiding them with a view filter because
Outlook doesn't delete anything automatically, unless you've instructed it
to do so.