Quickly Clean Your Inbox in Outlook 2003/2007

If you get hundreds of emails every day your inbox can fill up quickly. Outlook 2003 has an easy way to clean up your inbox quickly without having to go through each email individually to decide what needs to be kept.

 

To get to this window, click on Tools \ Mailbox Cleanup.

In this window you have several options to choose from. The easiest option is to select AutoArchive, which will move older items into the Archive Folder. You could also choose to empty the deleted items.

One of the more useful features however, is to quickly find all large emails using the “Find items larger than” button. Deleting all the largest emails would very quickly bring your inbox size down to a reasonable level.

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This article was originally written on 04/23/07 Tagged with: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook

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Comments (4)

1. April 24, 2007 12:42 am
   бул�?тат

   Very useful information. I will post it on my blog if you do not mind…

2. April 24, 2007 5:35 am
   The Geek

   I don’t allow people to republish articles from my site.

   There’s a copyright notice at the bottom of the page in case you missed it.

3. May 30, 2007 2:53 am
   Ronin Vladiamhe

   Is there an easier way to clean the the Inbox in Outlook 2000-2002?

4. September 21, 2009 5:13 am
   koen

   @ бул�?тат
   maybe you can put a link to this page on your blog…

   @ the geek
   is there a policy in Windows server 2003 to autoarchive email of users? like a weekly thing or when mailbox size reaches xx MB?