Hi,
We have a requirement to create a retention policy to delete mails/items older than 30 days in "Deleted Items" folder.
So we have created a retention policy for "Deleted Items" default folder as per below.
Type : Deleted Items
Action : Permanently Delete
Retention Period : 30 days
Then we have created a policy including this tag and applied it to a user mailbox. After applying it to the mailbox we also ran "Start-ManagedFolderAssistant" for that mailbox.
However still mails which are older than 30 days in "Deleted Items" aren't deleted from the mailbox.
Then we created another tag (for testing) targeting "Inbox" (default) folder with same retention period. Followed same steps which we did for previous tag and it started deleting mails from "Inbox" folder. So it works for "Inbox" folder but not for "Deleted Items" folder.
After doing some research on internet it seems that this works differently for "Deleted Items"
Can someone explain what i'm missing here or what I need to do, in order to fulfill my requirement?


