No archives in Outlook 2003

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Randy Brook

Using Outlook 2003 in Cached Exchange Mode. I connect remotely to a
Win2k based Exchange server. I have set my remote client to auto
archive. Yet my archive folders are always empty.

At my office I know that autoarchiving is disabled. However, on my
remote client, in options I see: "The network administrator has not
set retention policies." I also periodically see a message at the
bottom that autoarchiving is taking place.

When I look at the store folder, the archive.pst file is updated but
its size never changes from 265k. There is also a file called
outlook.ost that is very large (61MB) and currently dated.

Any idea what is happening?
 
Additional question: What is the significance of the setting "clean
out items older than X months". I have assumed this means that the
archives will be purged of messages older than X months, since the
default is 30 months. If I am wrong and it somehow means "clean out
messages from regular folders when older than X months and move them
to archives", that would explain my problem below.
 
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