Spartan 365 - How To Set Retention Policies for a Folder in Spartan Mail

Objective

Office 365 retention policies can be used to automatically delete e-mail older than a specified time, such as 6 months, 1 year, 5 years, etc. This can be very useful for folders where you save information from listservs or other information that is time sensitive and/or not critical.

Following these steps will apply a retention policy to a mail folder in your account.

Environment

Spartan Mail

Before You Begin

Users may choose to apply personal retention policies to automatically delete e-mail from non-system folders. This includes all folders except:

• Deleted Items,
• Drafts,
• Inbox,
• Junk Mail, and
• Sent Items

Steps

1. Go to https://spartanmail.msu.edu (link).
2. In the Inbox, expand the folder view.
3. Right-click on the mail folder that you want to apply a retention policy to.
4. Click Assign policy and select the policy you want to apply.
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5. You're done! You have assigned a retention policy to the selected mail folder.
   Once a policy is set for a folder, that policy may take up to a week to begin applying.

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