Probably not missing anything but how folks work will always differ.
For me, I prefer only touching email once. If I receive a product code after having purchased it, I drag that email to the notes icon to keep it in notes. It is then synched to my PDA for access and off-drive backup.
You can play with the different methods for handling your mail but for me, I prefer to not use automatic archiving and manually archive folders where I know information can be retrieved if necessary but it is not important enough to clutter my active .pst file.
Maybe your answer lies in not allowing automatic archiving but settting it on a per folder schedule?
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After furious head scratching, Barry asked:
| Thank you. Very appropriate and useful answer. However, I would
| like to extend the question one step further. What I would like to
| do is have all incoming mail sorted with rules into various folders
| (I can do that). I would then like to read all Unread messages in the
| Unread Message Folder. When I come across an email that I want to be
| a keeper, I would like to flag it somehow so that it will escape
| archiving/deleting from the folder that it is already in. Other
| unflagged emails in that folder would be deleted automatically
| according to the auto-archiving parameters.
| A specific example. Email from a software company with activation
| codes, etc. comes off of my pop server and is diverted by a message
| rule to its folder. I then read the message in the Unread message
| folder and decide I want to keep this message in its folder but also
| keep it from archiving/deleteing.
|
| So far I have not been able to figure out how to effect that
| possibility.
| If it can't be done, I would think it would be a nice feature for the
| future. It would allow full autosorting, continuje to allow
| automatic deleting of old messaages, but would also allow keeping of
| specific messages with important info.
|
| Am I missing something in trying to get on top of this program?
|
| Thanks again.
|
|| Mark the folder that you are moving these emails to for Never
|| Archiving. Then ensure you don't have universal archiving set.
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
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|| After furious head scratching, Barry asked:
||
||| (Outlook 2007) New to Outlook. Emails are coming into in-box and
||| organized by received date and grouping. Would like to take
||| advantage of auto archiving/deleting but want certain emails to
||| resist deletion with the auto feature and also be moved to a message
||| specific folder. Is there someway to flag an email so that it
||| can't be deleted with auto-deleting?
