JAWC
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a script to move oldest email messages from the inbox to another folder
I am looking for a script that search for the oldest email messages (by date) and move what found to another folder, lets call it back up. also a check should occure to find out if the backup folder exist if not create one.
ASKER
thank you for the suggestion. unfortunately we are not able to purchase software
No need to purchase. This free tool can do that easily, just configure required data range:
http://www.outlookfreeware .com/en/pr oducts/all /OutlookFo lderMerge/
http://www.outlookfreeware
ASKER
Thankyou thims. it did not work I am afraid
a script to take all the 'old' mails and move them.
1. How will date and folders be defined?
2. How is the script to be triggered?
Chris
1. How will date and folders be defined?
2. How is the script to be triggered?
Chris
JAWC, what exactly did not work?
ASKER
Hi thims
it did not do what we wanted to do.it does come out with errors.
it did not do what we wanted to do.it does come out with errors.
JAWC you can always contact OutlookFreeware.com team on their forum. They will be happy to help you.
As are we! ... if you want a script then please advise so it can be set up accordingly and otherwise i'll assume you dont.
Chris
Chris
ASKER
Hi Chris, a script to take all the 'old' mails and move them. Yes
1. How will date and folders be defined? anything older then 5 month
2. How is the script to be triggered? a vbscript or by macro.
Thank you for your help
1. How will date and folders be defined? anything older then 5 month
2. How is the script to be triggered? a vbscript or by macro.
Thank you for your help
The trigger ... a VBS cannot do so as outlook doesn't support that but the question was within outlook VBE are you comfortable with running a macro we provide?
Chris
Chris
Which folder(s) since that affects the mechanism
Chris
Chris
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I just looked at the security settings macro will not work.
ENable the macros then, or are you saying that your IT have disbled you from running scripts ... because if so a script as requested can never work!
Chris
Chris
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Thank you this is excellent. We have a good start.
It lets you choose exactly what criteria to search for and you can specify how long you want the email to sit in your inbox before it moves it out. I set things like newsletters to automatically delete after 2 days, etc. It only works with Outlook unfortunately, so to use it on my Gmail account, I have my Gmail setup as IMAP in Outlook. Hope this helps.
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