Deleting e-mail in a public folder

Harrison Midkiff · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 8

Hello:

We have a Public Folder for our developers which is e-mail enabled for
errors. We get over three thousand e-mails in the folder a day. Twice now
the folder was not cleared and ended up with over 1,000,000 messages in it!
Outlook clients locked up when they tried to view the folder. Finally I had
to delete it and re-create it. Does anyone know if you can create a rule or
something which will automatically delete e-mails over 4 days old so this
problem will not happen again? I thought I could do it with the folder
assistant, but I don't think it will work. Thanks.

Harrison Midkiff

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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 875

Harrison Midkiff wrote:
> Hello:
>
> We have a Public Folder for our developers which is e-mail enabled for
> errors. We get over three thousand e-mails in the folder a day. Twice now
> the folder was not cleared and ended up with over 1,000,000
> messages in it! Outlook clients locked up when they tried to view the
> folder. Finally I had to delete it and re-create it. Does anyone
> know if you can create a rule or something which will automatically
> delete e-mails over 4 days old so this problem will not happen again?
> I thought I could do it with the folder assistant, but I don't think
> it will work. Thanks.
> Harrison Midkiff

I believe the folder assistant is the only way to go - or change this to a
mailbox instead of a PF, and set up a mailbox management recipient policy
(filtered to apply to this mailbox only) that automatically purges out mail
older thanX days.

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