Deletion of old messages in Outlook Express in Windows XP:

Does anyone know how to remove the messages accumulated in both my "Deleted" folder and in my "Sent" folder I thought that deleted messages are automatically deleted after so many days and which is not the case. And in my sent folder that they never delete and now I have 4000 messages I want to get rid of. I really want to keep are the last 30 days
Thank you

Once you get done deletions, then compact the folders to remove the space took messages.  The size of the file will not change unless you compact it and it may corrupt the file if you do not.
 
Steve
 

Does anyone know how to remove the messages accumulated in both my "Deleted" folder and in my "Sent" folder I thought that deleted messages are automatically deleted after so many days and which is not the case. And in my sent folder that they never delete and now I have 4000 messages I want to get rid of. I really want to keep are the last 30 days
Thank you

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