There may be circumstances where you want your e-mail inacessible, or expired, after a certain date or time. Perhaps the information is confidential or private, and you want to help ensure the e-mail doesn't accidently get viewed by others. To do so:

1. Start composing an e-mail message.
2. Click the "Options" button.
3. When the "Options" dialog appears, check "Expires after".
4. In the next two pull-downs, select the date and time when you want the e-mail to expire.
5. Click "OK".

Note that this will only work for those who use Outlook 2003; send e-mail to other users and their e-mail software may not expire the e-mail. Also note this is not fool-proof; there are ways recipients can copy the e-mail to their hard drive without the information being deleted. However, this expiring technique may work well in some circumstances.

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