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# Message retention policy
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{!owner-only.md!}
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By default, Zulip stores messages indefinitely, allowing full-text
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search of your complete history.
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Zulip supports configuring both a global organization-level message
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retention policy, as well as retention policies for individual
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streams. These policies control how many days a message is stored
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before being automatically deleted (the default being forever).
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Zulip's system supports:
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* Setting an organization-level retention policy, which applies to
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all direct messages and all streams without a specific policy.
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* Setting a retention policy for individual streams, which overrides
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the organization-level policy for that stream. This can be used to
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just delete messages on specific streams, to only retain messages
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forever on specific streams, or just to have a different retention
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period.
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In Zulip Cloud, message retention policies are available on the Zulip
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Cloud Standard and Zulip Cloud Plus [plans](https://zulip.com/plans/),
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as well as for the hundreds of communities with sponsored Cloud
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Standard hosting.
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### Configure message retention policy for organization
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{start_tabs}
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{settings_tab|organization-settings}
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4. Under **Message retention**, configure **Message retention period**.
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{!save-changes.md!}
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{end_tabs}
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### Configure message retention policy for individual streams
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{start_tabs}
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{relative|stream|all}
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1. Select a stream.
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{!select-stream-view-general.md!}
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1. Under **Stream permissions**, configure the
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**Message retention period**.
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{!save-changes.md!}
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{end_tabs}
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{!automated-notice-stream-event.md!}
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## Important details
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* Retention policies are processed in a daily job; so changes in the
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policy won't have any effect until the next time the daily job runs.
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* Deleted messages are preserved temporarily in a special archive. So
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if you discover a misconfiguration accidentally deleted content you
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meant to preserve, contact Zulip support promptly for assistance with
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restoration. See the [deletion
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documentation](/help/edit-or-delete-a-message#how-deletion-works) for
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more details on precisely how message deletion works in Zulip.
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## Related articles
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* [Edit or delete a message](/help/edit-or-delete-a-message)
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* [Delete a topic](/help/delete-a-topic)
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* [Archive a stream](/help/archive-a-stream)
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