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An email retention policy is list of parameters created by an organization to determine what e-mail and instant messaging records need to be kept for compliance or other business reasons. The policy should also have a timetable for when records that have been retained can be moved to off-site storage archives or be destroyed.

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This was last updated in April 2006
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