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SecurityGateway for Email Servers v10.5

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Data Retention

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Use this page to configure how long SecurityGateway will keep message database records, message content, and each message's SMTP session transcript. You can also designate under what circumstances message content will be retained or deleted. Database maintenance occurs each night at midnight, and all values on this page are in numbers of days.

Message Database Records

Specify below how long you wish to retain message database records. Reports will be limited to this time frame. A longer time frame will result in a larger database.

Take no action

Choose this option if you do not wish to delete message database records.

Delete records after [xx] day(s)

If you wish delete old database records each night at midnight, choose this option and specify the number of days that you wish to keep each record. This is the default option and records are saved for 30 days.

Message Content

By default, the content of each email message is discarded when it is no longer needed, such as when the message is delivered successfully to the recipient, when a message is deleted from quarantine, and the like. However, because saving the content of an email message can be helpful for debugging purposes, there are options provided below to prevent automatic deletion of message content under various circumstances. All of these options are disabled by default.

Enabling these options may result in degraded performance and a larger database.

Do not delete message content after successful delivery

Click this option if you wish to retain message content, even after the message has been successfully delivered to the recipient's server.

Do not delete message content when a message is deleted from the quarantine

Enable this option if you do not wish to delete a quarantined message's content after it is deleted from the quarantine.

Do not delete message content when a message is rejected

When this option is enabled, SecurityGateway will not delete a message's content even if the message is rejected after receiving it.

Do not delete message content after permanent delivery failure

Click this option if you wish to retain messages that encounter a permanent delivery failure, such as when the recipient is invalid.

Do not delete message content of incomplete messages

Enable this option if you do not wish to delete the content of incomplete messages.

Message Transcripts

For each message, a comprehensive log of the SMTP session and SIEVE rule engine is maintained. These message transcripts can be very helpful in troubleshooting and debugging, however they do increase the size of the database.

Process with the message database record (above)

This is the default option. When it is selected, message transcripts will be processed according to the option selected in the Message Database Records section above. When old message database records are deleted, session transcripts will be deleted as well.

Delete message transcripts after [xx] day(s)

If you wish to retain message transcripts for a specific number of days, click this option and specify the number of days to keep them.

Do not store message transcripts

Choose this option if you do not wish to store message transcripts.

Bandwidth Information

Delete bandwidth information after [xx] day(s)

Enable this option and specify a number of days if you wish to delete old bandwidth usage information each night at midnight.