> G'day David
>
> you can tell whether any emails have expired as they'll be grey with a
> strikeout through them. But Ben's right - it's very unlikely that you'll
> have any expired emails. It's a function I teach people to use for emails
> that have a short "life" eg letting the team know that tomorrow's casual
> clothes day should expire tomorrow.
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> "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote in message
> news:%%23Psyfx1$IHA.2244@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>> It only deletes the items if they've actually expired - a relatively rare
>> setting which the sender would have had to set. I'm confident that your
>> old newsletters will be fine.
>>
>> If you're really worried about it you could always copy them into another
>> PST file for safekeeping or...just rely upon your backups. You do have
>> that data backed up, right?
>>
>> --
>> -Ben-
>> Ben M. Schorr, MVP
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>> "David G" gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:DBDD5FF8-B048-4345-B2C3-24E1F0A6179D@microsoft.com:
>>

>>> Hi,
>>> I'm new to using Auto Archive, I've always just ignored the Auto Archive
>>> prompt. I'm now wondering whether I should use it due to the ever
>>> increasing
>>> size of my Inbox. What worries me is the option that says "Delete
>>> expired
>>> items (e-mail folders only)". I have large numbers of newsletters that
>>> go
>>> back for years but I don't want to delete any of them. Won't AutoArchive
>>> just delete all these old messages? There are lots of stuff that is old
>>> that
>>> I still refer to in my Inbox and in folders. Will AutoArchive just
>>> robotically delete all these old items? How can I avoid this seemingly
>>> arbitrary behaviour?
>>> --
>>> Thanks
>>> David G
>>> Albury, Australia

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