# Outlook 2002 questions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-2002-questions/165169>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 30, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-2002-questions/165169 "2003-03-30T04:54:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-2002-questions/165169/1 "2003-03-30T04:54:17Z")

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I have Outlook 2002 setup to fetch mail from my ISP and rules to put mail in certain folders. I would like to somehow limit certain folders to X amount of messages but unlimited messages in other folders. Any way to do this automaticly?

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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-2002-questions/165169/2 "2003-03-30T05:12:00Z")

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an alternative is to use auto archive and move/delete off X days old messages…

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**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-2002-questions/165169/3 "2003-03-30T05:52:45Z")

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> \*Originally posted by shijinn \*  
> \*\*an alternative is to use auto archive and move/delete off X days old messages… \*\*

I don’t want to use auto archive because it seems to “forget” settings