Set message expiry dates in Outlook 2007

[alexd]

Is there a way in Outlook 2007 to set an expiry date for a message using
rules or some other simple operation?

The only way I know how to do it just now, is to right-click the message,
select 'Options',
tick the 'Expires after' box,
type or select the date,
click 'Close',
& click 'Yes' to confirm I want to save changes.

I like to use expiry dates for newsletters etc which I might want to read in
the near future, but I don't want to keep long-term, & I don't want to have
to create separate folders to set up auto-archive rules as I already have too
many folders.

Sorry about the length of the post,
Thanks in advance

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

Here's a very helpful VBA solution for that:
http://www.vboffice.net/sample.html?mnu=2&pub=6&lang=en&smp=59&cmd=showitem

Via customization you can add a button to your toolbar to call the macro.

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Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
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<http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6>

Am Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:20:03 -0800 schrieb alexd: