Trash and Sent Items Policies

Question

I am looking to automate deletion of trash and sent items. I know that can be set up for trash by administratively setting that in client options for the post office, but is there a way to do the same for Sent Items, say to delete sent items after 90 days?

Answer 1

I wanted to evaluate what would be affected first, so I did a Mailbox Statistics, Expire Statistics run on my mailbox. I set the "items older than", and "Downloaded items older than", number of days for 370, and included Senti Items and Calendar Items. I got a lot more than I bargained for. The log shows everything from way back when.... long before the 370 days I entered, all the way up to today's present email. Why is mail from March 2013 forward being shown? Does that mean in a real run these sent items would also be deleted? How do I interpret this?
>>> Paul Lamontagne<[email protected]> 3/6/2014 9:57 PM >>>
yes that too....in the bottom of the expire reduce you chose what to
include....received items, sent items. calendar items.
so for sent items its just items older than and trash older than.....
you can then select sent items only.....
may need to do 2 separate scheduled events one for the trash and one for the
sent items, but very do-able..
>>> On 3/6/2014 at 5:42 PM, in message <[email protected]>,
Quintin<[email protected]> wrote:
> for Sent items?
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>>>> Paul Lamontagne<[email protected]> 3/5/2014 6:21 PM
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> Yes, you can create a scheduled event that with the expire/reduce and
> you
> can expire trash older than 90 days and just run it nightly.
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> Paul
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>>>> On 3/5/2014 at 4:08 PM, in message <[email protected]>,
> Quintin<removethis‑[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am looking to automate deletion of trash and sent items. I know that
>> can be set up for trash by administratively setting that in client
>> options for the post office, but is there a way to do the same for Sent
>> Items, say to delete sent items after 90 days?