Email retention

[Gregory A Jackson <gjackson () MIT EDU>]

Yeah, I know, everyone’s favorite.

If anyone is particularly happy with their email retention policy-especially for faculty and staff-I’d welcome private 
(or even public) communication.

My sense is that most institutions either (a) leave all email in users’ inboxes so long as users remain employed, or 
possibly (b) leave it in folders other than “inbox” but purge inbox after 30-60 days (that is, users can keep mail by 
moving it to other folders-DNC did that while I was working there), and in either case maybe (c) retain email for some 
period after staff or faculty leave.

And I’m sure this is all hugely complicated by outsourcing to Google or Microsoft or whatever.

Greg Jackson
gjackson.us ● 1-202-596-9425