System Cleanup Outlook 2007

[sheila4typing]

I have Outlook 2007 at work and every so often I see a folder called system
cleanup that automatically puts my outgoing emails, calendar and task items
in that folder. How do I get rid of that or at least be able to set the time
frame. Right now it appears to be approximately a month.
Thank you

 

[neo]

Did you ask those that take of your corporate e-mail system if they have a
process that runs server side that does this? The reason that I ask is that
there are solutions that run on the Microsoft Exchange server that do
archival and maintenance on the database.

 

[sheila4typing]

No I never thought of that. So you are saying this is not an automatic
function of Outlook, it is done because of corporate?

 

[neo]

I'm saying that it could be based on your description of the issue and yes,
it isn't a client side thing. This is strictly something the corporate gods
have decided needs to be done/run on Exchange server side for message
retention, archival, and discovery (read legal) purposes. You will have
absolutely no control over this process.

However, lets say I'm wrong for a minute. Outlook does include a client
side archive feature. I ruled this out by your description of the issue
because the folder name it uses by default is *not* "system cleanup". The
feature does use/create a PST file on your system and if I'm not mistaken,
it doesn't go away at the end of the process. If you wanted to see if the
client side auto-archive feature is on in Outlook or how it is configured,
just open Outlook and select Tools | Options | Other tab | AutoArchive
button.

 

[sheila4typing]

I can click on run autoarchieve and then uncheck everything else then click

 

[neo]

If it is a server side process, no.

I can click on run autoarchieve and then uncheck everything else then click