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Manage your mailbox IV: Archive old messages

Overview

What's that message all about?

Archive basics

Step 1: Make sure it's on, and decide how often it runs

Step 2: Specify what "old" means

Archive moves messages according to age

Practice

Test yourself

Get fancy with Archive

Specify exceptions

Make it happen when you want

Archive calendar entries (or other items)

Practice

Test yourself

Feedback

Quick reference card

Clock, messages, folders, Delete command, and other customizable features of Archive

Archive can be very flexible.

Archive can be very flexible. You don't have to archive only at the selected time intervals; you can do it anytime. And you don't have to archive everything.

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