Recent content by kmfdm

I changed it to a test folder in My Documents and it worked now. Strange. All set now...thanks for the help!

Thanks for the reply. I tried that as well, since the code as written (using "Documents" instead of "My Documents") didn't seem to work with WinXP. Neither way worked.

Since this is now a programming issue and the programming forums here appear to be closed, I posted the question in the Outlook MSDN forums. Hopefully I can figure it out.

I added the code and I can't get it to work. I tried both adding a new module and adding it to ThisOutlookSession. I get a runtime error: "Operation Failed" Debug points to this line: oMail.SaveAs sPath & sName, olMSG I didn't know if the path was correct, so I then tried to set the...

Thanks, that is very helpful. I'm going to try out that VBA tonight. Just so I'm understanding you correctly, though - you stated that retention is exchange server mailboxes only...so if I do end up exporting to a .pst, the emails are safe and will not be affected by the retention policy...

Hello, I have a very strict retention policy (60 days) and I am trying to archive emails past that point. I can copy .msg files to a local fiolder, but I have no way of sorting by received date then. If I export the emails to a local .pst file, is that file still affected by the retention...