is there any way to turn on Archival (to permanently delete items) only
in the deleted items folder. In other words, anything that is in the
inbox, the 'my favorite stuff' and the 'useless stuff that really
should be deleted but I don't want to' folders will NEVER be archived,
but anything in the deleted items older than 3 months will be
permanently deleted?

My worry is that as soon as I turn on the archival for the deleted
items folder, it says that there is no default policy, and it's going
to turn it on and set it to run every 14 days. After doing that I look
at some of the other folders and some are set to archive and some are
not. It seems to me we used to be able to just turn on archival on a
folder without saying that 'I want outlook to randomly select folders
to archive so I have to be petrified that users are going to loose
things that they don't want to'. The group policy on this looks even
less configurable. Is there any way to accomplish this so that I don't
need to worry about folders deciding that they should be archived when
I turn it on for the deleted items, and that if the user creates a new
folder down the road that it will set that folder to archive? I don't
need to have the users worrying about shutting this off for every
folder they create from here on out.

Any ideas?

Mick