Question : Recipient Policy (Delete items) not being applied?

Hi Experts,

Our spam filter "tags" all incoming spam and then Outlook moves it upon arrival in a destination mailbox to a specific folder.  I'd like to have items within this folder deleted that are more than 14 days old.  I've configured what I thought was the correct recipient policy and enabled the mailbox manager to run nightly.  It runs and I get a report in the AM...but no messages are deleted?  Here's my setup and a cut/paste of the report.

What am I missing?

ESM:
1 - Recipient Policy:  Default policy was left intact.  A new policy was added with a priority of 1.  Title is "delete quarantine items."  Filter rules select 2 mailboxes (for testing purposes, once its working I will apply it to all mailboxes).  Under E-Mail Addresses (Policy) I have selected all SMTP addresses.  Under Mailbox Manager Settings (Policy) I have selected the folder which contains the items (It does have a " * " in its name...hmmm...could that be the issue?) and set the age to 14 days and any size.   I have also selected "deleted items" and set that to 30 days, any size.  Exclude specific message classes is NOT selected.  Under "when processing a mailbox" the setting is "delete immediately."

2 - Servers-->Properties --> Mailbox Management:  I have set the "start mailbox management process" to use a custom schedule which is 1am everyday.  Reporting is "send detail report to administrator."  

Here's a cut/paste of the report. I did notice that there is no reference to the folder that the items should be deleted from...?  Its also not deleting any items from the "deleted items" folder.

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Cleaning Mailbox [email protected] (changed for security reasons)
Recipient Policy: Delete Quarantine Items
Folder Deleted Items Contents: 20 Items (204.00 KB)
Folder Deleted Items Contents: 20 Items (204.00 KB)
Folder Deleted Items Done: 0 Items Processed, 0 Items Moved (0 (null)), 0 Items Deleted (0 (null))
Folder / Contents: 0 Items (0.00 KB)
Folder / Contents: 0 Items (0.00 KB)
Folder / Done: 0 Items Processed, 0 Items Moved (0 (null)), 0 Items Deleted (0 (null))
Folder /Outbox Contents: 0 Items (0.00 KB)
Folder /Outbox Contents: 0 Items (0.00 KB)
Folder /Outbox Done: 0 Items Processed, 0 Items Moved (0 (null)), 0 Items Deleted (0 (null))
Mailbox [email protected] Contents (before processing): 20 Items (204.00 KB)
Mailbox [email protected]  Done: 3 Folders Processed, 0 Items Moved (0 (null)), 0 Items Deleted (0 (null))
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Cleaning Mailbox [email protected]
Recipient Policy: Delete Quarantine Items
Folder Deleted Items Contents: 940 Items (12.17 MB)
Folder Deleted Items Contents: 940 Items (12.17 MB)
Folder Deleted Items Done: 0 Items Processed, 0 Items Moved (0 (null)), 0 Items Deleted (0 (null))
Folder / Contents: 0 Items (1.00 KB)
Folder / Contents: 0 Items (1.00 KB)
Folder / Done: 0 Items Processed, 0 Items Moved (0 (null)), 0 Items Deleted (0 (null))
Folder /Outbox Contents: 0 Items (0.00 KB)
Folder /Outbox Contents: 0 Items (0.00 KB)
Folder /Outbox Done: 0 Items Processed, 0 Items Moved (0 (null)), 0 Items Deleted (0 (null))
Mailbox [email protected] Contents (before processing): 940 Items (12.17 MB)
Mailbox [email protected] Done: 3 Folders Processed, 0 Items Moved (0 (null)), 0 Items Deleted (0 (null))

The Microsoft Exchange Server Mailbox Manager has completed processing mailboxes
Started at:      2008-07-12 01:00:16
Completed at:      2008-07-12 01:00:17
Mailboxes processed:      2
Messages moved:      0
Size of moved messages:      0.00 KB
Deleted messages:      0
Size of deleted messages:      0.00 KB

Answer : Recipient Policy (Delete items) not being applied?

I've solved this for myself.  

The folder name that holds the spam has an asterisk in it.  I renamed the folder without the * , and recreated the deletion policy.  It ran fine last night.  I can only assume that the server treats the * as a wildcard (although it still should have matched...).

Hope this helps someone else.