[luckman212]

Hi,
I am somewhat confused by the precendence enforced when it comes to mail archiving and deletion on a BES-enabled Blackberry. I am using a hosted exchange account on ExchangeMyMail with a BB Curve 8310 and Outlook 2007.

My preferred scenario:
Mail is preserved only for 2 months on the BB.
If I delete mail from the BB, it should delete from Outlook and vice-versa.
Mail older than 2 months is moved "offline" from the Exchange server and archived into a local PST file (ExchangeMyMail has a 1GB limit on my account)

My settings:
On BB:
messages->options->keep email 60 days
message synch->delete on->mailbox + handheld

In Outlook:
autoarchive set on INBOX folder to autoarchive stuff older than 60 days

At this time I am not 100% sure this is working. I would love to get some advice or if someone can point me somewhere that this kind of stuff is documented, great. Because I am confused and the most important thing to me is NOT losing any email.

[hdawg]

Ok ... what isn't working?

[luckman212]

guess I just wanted to make sure this was a "valid" configuration. Is this how other people are doing it too? I just wanted some validation. I feel like a bunch of emails were deleted from my Outlook when the BB hit it's "60 day mark" but I can't really confirm this, it's difficult to know. So I was wondering if, when the BB starts "dropping" old messages, do they simply get dropped from the phone? I mean, it doesn't reach out to the BES server and tell BES to delete those messages from the INBOX as well does it?? That would be crazy.

[gibson_hg]

When email hits the 60 day mark it deletes off the BB only. You have to delete messages yourself for them to be deleted from your Outlook as well.