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Licensed Customer Confidential Historical Mail Administration
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Historical Mail Administration
The Historical Mail feature of Email Continuity allows users to access stored email
during an activation of Email Continuity using a searchable web-based interface.
You identify email to be stored by including it in a policy.
Retention Policies
A retention policy defines the amount of time email messages are stored in the
system. If no policy is applied to a message, a default policy of 30 days is used.
NOTE Mail Purging
A retention policy determines when a message is eligible to be purged from the
data center, not the actual date the message will be purged. Purging is
performed in the data center; you may notice a delay between the date a
message no longer must be kept according to the governing policy, and the date
it disappears from the server. Purging does not occur while the Email Continuity
service is active.
Membership-based (Current Membership) Policies
For membership-based policies, a message is retained based on whether the
sender or recipient is a member of the policy. The message is retained only as
long as the user remains a member of the group to which the policy applies. When
a user is no longer part of the policy group the message is eligible for purging.
Updates to membership-based policies occur after a directory syncronization or
when an administrator modifies the policy.
Example 1: For example, a user is initially a member of the Sales Group, which
has a membership-based retention period of 50 days. When the user separates
from the sales organization and becomes part of the Assistant Group, a new
Component not installed
Status reporting disabled
The server has users who are active on Email Continuity
The server has no users active on Email Continuity
Table 4-4 Redirector Status Icons (Continued)
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