– You want to keep your exchange account lean for performance reasons, but still be able to search gigs of mail going back many years – Your company operates a data limit or ‘delete mail after x days’ policy which means you must move mail out of the exchange account to not cause disruption to your flow of mail (or to not suffer data loss of important mails in your past history) If you aren’t in the know: Archiving for Outlook is a process of automatically copying your full email folder structure and/or calendar events from the exchange server to a local folder structure on your computer. If you’ve enjoyed the free AppleScript, please consider upgrading to Outlook Archive Tool even just as a donation for the hard work: Feature Comparison It’s a significant improvement over the free applescript when comparing the features. To download and see the features and screenshots of the new Outlook Mac Archive Tool go here It also supports archiving mail to the cloud (such as a GMail account) which keeps your archive safely backed up and accessible/searchable anywhere in the world.
It is significantly more stable, featured and faster than the AppleScript. I have now released a new tool for archiving in Outlook Mac 2011 which is a native Mac Application. Out the box Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 has no equivalent tool to the auto archive functionality found in Outlook for Windows.
