I recently switched from OE to Outlook on my home computer. I imported all
of my email messages without a hitch.

Now, I'd like to archive messages over six months old, but it appears that
the archive function uses the messages' creation date as their age, not the
sent/received date. Since I imported them a week ago, Outlook sees all
imported messages as being created a week ago (even those that I received a
year ago). So none of them are being archived right now. And in six
months, they'll all be archived at once.

Two things could solve this problem:

1. having Outlook archive by the sent/received date (instead of by creation
date), or
2. overwriting the creation date of the imported messages with their
sent/received date.

Does anyone have any insight into this problem?

Thanks
JBW