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Can I set up an email retention policy for Spanning Backup for Office 365? - Connect IT Community | Kaseya
<main> <article class="userContent"> <p>By default, Spanning Backup for Office 365 retains your data as long as users have Spanning Licenses. You can set up a mail retention policy which will delete any email messages in your backups with a received date older than the retention period set. <br><br>The email retention period will apply to all Spanning licensed users in your organization.<br><br>For example:</p> <ul><li>An organization sets a 180 day email retention period in Spanning</li> <li>Spanning will delete all email existing in any backup with a received date greater than 180 days, and continue to do this on a daily basis automatically</li> <li>For new users being backed up after a retention policy is set, no emails older than the retention period will be backed up</li> <li>The mail retention policy setting for your tenant is displayed on the Settings page. </li> </ul><p><br>If you would like more information about mail retention, or would like to set up a policy for your organization, please contact <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:support@spanning.com">support@spanning.com</a>. The request to enable a mail retention policy must come from a Global Admin in the tenant. <br><br>Any changes to the retention policy will be tracked in the immutable Activity Log with a record of the admin who requested the policy change. </p> <p>To learn more about Retention for other workloads, like OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. See the article <a rel="nofollow" href="https://kaseya.vanillacommunities.com/kb/articles/aliases/spanning/hc/en-us/articles/360011441037">Tenant Wide Retention</a>.</p> </article> </main>