Automatically expire an incoming message

[Greg Brown]

I'm looking for some way using rules to automatically expire an incoming
message that meets certain criteria. Can anyone point me in the right
direction? I have a ton of email that comes in daily that I need to
see, but not archive. If I could just automatically set it to expire 1
week from the date of arrival, that would prevent Archive from filling
up my archive with stuff that's only pertinent for about a week.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I'm looking for some way using rules to automatically expire an
incoming message that meets certain criteria. Can anyone point me in
the right direction? I have a ton of email that comes in daily that
I need to see, but not archive. If I could just automatically set it
to expire 1 week from the date of arrival, that would prevent Archive
from filling up my archive with stuff that's only pertinent for about
a week.

If you can design a rule that will move the messages to another folder, use
that, then modify autoarchive on that folder to mark messages as expired or
simply delete them after your desired time.

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

Here's a VBA sample for setting the expiry time manually:
http://www.vboffice.net/sample.html?mnu=2&lang=en&smp=59&cmd=showitem&pub=6

You can add a button to the toolbars (for folder and/or messages) and call
the macro with that button.

I use that macro myself a lot of times daily and it's really helpful! For me
a default value of eight weeks is fine. You can change that, of course.

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
The Tool for Organizing your e-Mails:
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Am Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:48:26 -0400 schrieb Greg Brown: