AutoArchive doesn't

[Egg 'n' Bacon]

Just had a conversation with our contracted IT fella, and he tells me I have thousands of e-mails on the server. This surprised me, as I had the AutoArchive set to anything in the last 12 months, but after digging about, I found stuff from 2009!

So having looked at different help things, it seems that Outlook might be archiving anything that was modified as opposed to the actual date of sending/receiving. Only the bug fix didn't work.

Any ideas?

[HansV]

Make sure that AutoArchive has been turned on for your e-mail folders.
Here is an example of a folder for which AutoArchive has been disabled:

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And another folder that uses the default AutoArchive settings as defined in Outlook Options:

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You can also archive items manually. In Outlook 2007 and earlier: File | Archive...; in Outlook 2010: File | Info | Cleanup Tools | Archive...
You can archive all folders according to their AutoArchive settings, or you can archive all items older than a specified date.

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[JoeP]

Autoarchive works on date modified. If emails are being updated in some way within the Autoarchive time frame they will not be archived.

Joe

[Egg 'n' Bacon]

That's the ticket!

Thank you Hans; that was the missing option.