Automatically receiving mail messages and expiring them

In the e-mail there will be links to articles in the newsletter. After a
week we don't want them to be able to access them from the links in the
e-mail. Yes, I like the idea of them being autoarchived, it's just we don't
want them to be accessed from the links in the e-mail after a week.

If I'm not mistaken, will the strikethrough still allow them to access the
e-mail?

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

FJCarson wrote:

I don't care about autoarchiving them. I want the messages to expire
after a week

Notice that I said have autoarchive DELETE them, not archive them.

What do you intend to do with the expired messages? Expired messages hang
around just as long as any other messages. Outlook does nothing with them
except change their appearance in the view by displaying them with an
overstrike through their header line. Expired messages don't go away by
themselves.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

FJCarson wrote:

If I'm not mistaken, will the strikethrough still allow them to
access the e-mail?

Yes. When I tested expired messages, the only difference between them and
normal messages is that the InfoBar shows they're expired and they display
in the Inbox header list with a strike-through and a slightly lighter font.
In all other aspects thet are normal. I could respond to them, click links
in them and all the normal things you can do with a message. The expiration
date is just a message attribute no different that the creation date or
modification date for you to use as you see fit with whatever tools Outlook
supplies that recognize that date. The only tool in Outlook that actually
acts upon that date is autoarchive, which can be configured to delete
expired messages. Unless the recipient does that, though, the message will
be just a message with a slight change in presentation.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]