Outlook: Archive based on received date

[gmail2]

Hi all

I've come across a "problem" in outlook, where it archives messages based on the last modified date rather than the received date. We have some users who have had their mails imported recently, so the modified date on all of them is only a few weeks ago, even though some of the messages are years old.

Is there any way to archive these messages based on modified date at all ?

Thanks in advance for any help

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Irish Poetry and Short Stories - Doghouse Books
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[gmail2]

Please ... anybody got any suggestions on this at all ?

Irish Poetry - Karen O'Connor
Irish Poetry and Short Stories - Doghouse Books
Garten und Landschaftsbau

 

[cmeagan656]

What version of Outlook are you using and how many emails are involved?

Hope this helps.

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[gmail2]

Sorry, should have put that in the original post shoudln't I :-(

It's Outlook 2003 SP3. There are thousands of e-mails involved and they are distributed across multiple folders. I can use message rules, but the problem is that they can only move the messages into a specific folder - I need the messages to be moved into the corresponding folder in the archive. eg if a message from 3 years ago is in Inbox\Customer1\Order99 - I want it to be in the same location in the archive

Am I making sense ? Am I asking for the impossible ?!?!

Irish Poetry - Karen O'Connor
Irish Poetry and Short Stories - Doghouse Books
Garten und Landschaftsbau

 

[cmeagan656]

Yes your making sense. I don't know of any way to it automagically.

For a clunky, and likely time consuming, workaround you could use message rules to move the emails that you want to archive to another folder and then manually archive the emails from there. To archive from the folder you'd right click on the folder, select properties, and then select the AutoArchive tab and set your preferences there. You'd have to do this folder by folder though.

Have you tried posting in the VBA Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft) Forum forum707 to see if someone there can come up with an easier way?

Hope this helps.

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[gmail2]

Thanks cmeagan656 ... I'll post in VBA and see what I can find out

Thanks again

Irish Poetry - Karen O'Connor
Irish Poetry and Short Stories - Doghouse Books
Garten und Landschaftsbau