I have also seen this problem, essntially exactly the way you describe it. No idea what's causing it, though. I believe it's been pesent in Outlook for many years. I would also be interested in any ...
There are two relevant GPO settings in the Outlook 11 ADM template. "Autoarchive Settings" and "Retention Settings". Retention deletes old items without archiving them, correct? I don't want to do ...