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Conference chefs::ms-exchange

Title:	Microsoft Exchange Server
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Moderator:	FLASK2::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 17 1995
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Number of topics:	1099
Total number of notes:	5174

961.0. "Mail Expiration" by GLRMAI::HICKOX (N1KTX) Wed Mar 26 1997 18:20

    
      I sent a mail message from Exchange to Exchange with a read receipt
    3 weeks ago.  Today I received a message "Not read because it expired
    before reading".
    
      Does this mean the message has now been removed from the individuals
    Inbox or that the read receipt feature has an expiration date?
    
      Where is the expiration feature set (user or server)?
    
    I could see a problem if the message is deleted from a users INBOX
    if they had gone on vacation for 3 weeks. Wow, no messages while I
    was out!
    
      What's the story with this feature, anyone know?
    
           Mark

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
961.1		CSC32::C_NADROWSKI		`Wed Mar 26 1997 22:36`	17
	Unless 5.0 has something new the only way to clean a mailbox was using the janitor program from the Exchange resource kit. I experimented with this for a customer and found that it deleted unread mail! There was not way to stop it. Microsoft said they would look into this in a future release. So, it looks like Digital is running the janitor and deleting un-read mail. Regards, Carl Nadrowski
961.2	Expiration date is a user-settable per-message option	tunsrv2-tunnel.imc.das.dec.com::foster	Stan Foster - foster@mail.dec.com	`Thu Mar 27 1997 07:03`	3
	Message expiration is a user settable option (send options). As far as I know there are no production servers runing any kind of auto purge function.
961.3	Outlook archives	EPS::BOEHM		`Fri May 23 1997 19:42`	4
	Outlook has an archive function, that the user sets up, and will archive messages to user selected folder etc. So check out Outlook for your exchange client.