Expire Email Messages In Outlook 2003
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Outlook 2003 allows you to configure an expiration date for your email messages. This can be useful if you are sending a sensitive or confidential email to someone else and you are concerned about it being read by someone else. Once the expiration date passes, the message will not longer be available. One catch to using this feature is that the person you are sending the message to must also be running Outlook 2003.
To set an expiration date for an email message:
- Open Outlook 2003 and compose your email message.
- Select the Option button. The Options dialog box will appear.
- Click the Expires After option.
- Use the drop down arrows to specify the date and time that you want the message to expire.
- Click OK.
When you send the message to the recipient, it will automatically expire after the date and time that you configured.
One Comment
Tony Gaimari
May 23rd, 2007
at 12:49pm
What does it mean to “expire” or “be unavailable”? The message seems to just sit in the Inbox with strikethrough formatting and can still be opened. I always thought it would actually be deleted form an Inbox if it had not been opened but go to strikethrough if it had been opened but the expiration date had changed. Isn’t there a setting somehwere to delete Expired Items after X days/weeks/months? Is this a setting that is controlled at the Exchange Server level or by the Client? Thanks.