Mailbox Management Policy Folder Exclusions
Hello, I have a question regarding Mailbox Management Policies. I know it is a bit limited in nature when it comes to configuration options as it is not meant to be a full fledged Enterprise solution but we are using it as a tool for an initial cleanup phase of emails prior to a package we have coming in for email archiving. With that said, one of the issues we are looking at is a problem with wanting to createafolder for the users in order to drag their email items into so that the policy will not touch it when it comes to moving or deleting the emails. Simple enough that we can specify this folder in the policy for the policy to exclude it but the one problem we have is subfolders. Unfortunetly because we have All Other Email Folders checked off in order to process all subfolders in the user's mailbox, it also effects the subfolders under the folder that we wanted to exclude. The problem we face with that scenario is that users will not easily be educated to not drag and drop folders into the exclusion folder but rather drag them into a single level under the excluded folder. Also, this will obviously meet a lot of resistance due to users loosing their ability to manage their emails by using folders. Lastly we cannot simply uncheck All Other Email Folders because we need to process the subfolders under Inbox for example. So my question is: Is there any other configuration options not clearly visible that will allow me to exclude subfolders under the main folder we excluded but still clean out the rest of the subfolders. Is it possible to user a wildcard in the name of the folders we would like to create, for instance all folders we do not want touched start with an exclamation point for it's name and can be stated in the policy with "!*" for the folder to exclude. Thanks in advance, Ron
September 24th, 2007 10:14pm

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