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Administrators and auditors can choose to add themselves to the alerts list for these standard policies as well as for any custom Policy Alerts.
They are then notified via email either weekly or daily, whenever messages meeting the specified criteria enter into the archive with the offending
messages attached to the notification email in a file..zip
Policy Alert Statistics
You can display a count of messages that meet the search criteria of selected Policy Alerts on the page of the BarracudaBASIC > Status
Message Archiver by enabling the dashboard option when defining the Alert. In addition, you can configure a daily Policy Violations Report
containing statistics on all messages that generate a Policy Alert to go out to specific recipients on the page.BASIC > Reports
Alert Notification Frequency
From the page, specify the alert frequency. In release 3.2 and earlier, you can specify daily or weekly alert notifications. POLICY > Alerts In
release 3.5 and higher, you can configure hourly, daily, or weekly alert notifications. For additional configuration
options, contact Barracuda Networks Technical Support.
Retention Policies
This article refers to the Barracuda Message Archiver release 3.1 or higher.
While the Barracuda Message Archiver is capable of handling an archive of virtually unlimited size, some organizations may want to expire
messages just as a matter of course. The page allows you to set the maximum age of an archived message before it isPOLICY > Retention
permanently purged from the archive. Note that if an auditor has specified an indefinite hold on a Saved Search, the retention policy is treated as
an infinite lifetime.
By default, automated purging of messages archived on the Barracuda Message Archiver is disabled. If you enable this ability, the Global
Retention Policy and any retention policies are run against all the archived messages once a week.Saved-Search
The Global Retention Policy setting does not apply to any messages that match a Saved-Search retention policy.
To enable or disable the automatic message expiration, set the option to or .Allow automatic message deletion Yes No
Global Retention Policy
The Global Retention Policy applies to every archived message. When retention policies are run against the archived messages (once per week),
any messages stored on the Barracuda Message Archiver that are older than this age are deleted unless they match an existing Saved-Search p
olicy.
To configure the Global Retention Policy:
Verify that the option is set to .Allow automatic message deletion Yes
In the field, enter the number of days to retain any archived message.Policy Length
Click .Save Changes
Saved-Search Retention Policy
You can define a retention policy based on a Saved Search to automatically delete archived messages from the Barracuda Message Archiver.
Note that before you can create a Saved Search retention policy, you must create at least one Saved Search in the BASIC > Search >
page.Advanced Search
Messages that match the specified Saved Search are permanently removed from the Barracuda Message Archiver when the age of the message
exceeds the specified Saved Search policy length.
If you define multiple Saved Search retention policies, if the age of any message exceeds the maximum age allowed by all Saved Search
retention policies that apply to the message, that message is permanently deleted form the Barracuda Message Archiver.
Warning
If the age of any message exceeds the maximum age allowed by all Saved-Search retention policies that apply to the message, that
message is permanently deleted from the Barracuda Message Archiver.
Important
Litigation holds overwrite Saved Search and Global Retention Policies; a litigation hold may be for a defined period of time or indefinite.