Frequently Asked Question
How does Zimbra handle email archiving and retention?
Last Updated 7 months ago
- Email Archiving – Zimbra has an inbuilt Archiving and Discovery feature that enables you to archive messages that are delivered to or sent by Zimbra Server, and also search across mailboxes. When archiving is enabled for an account, a copy of all email from or to that account is forked at the MTA, and a copy of the message is delivered to a predefined archive mailbox. This archiving process is transparent to account users.
- Email Retention – Zimbra enables you to define retention policies to manage how long emails are retained. Retention policies specify the duration for which emails should be kept before they are automatically deleted or moved to an archive.