The Retention option lets you enable GroupWise® mailboxes to support message retention. With message retention enabled, user messages can be copied to another storage location by a trusted application that has been designed to provide the Message Retention Service.
In addition, message retention prevents items that have not been retained from being emptied from users' mailboxes. This is similar to the Do Not Purge Items Until They Are Backed Up option (Tools > GroupWise Utilities > Client Options > Environment > Cleanup). If your system employs both message retention and backups, users cannot purge (empty) items from their mailboxes until the items have been both retained and backed up.
Message retention is configurable only by administrators, not by GroupWise users. The Retention options do not display in the GroupWise client.
Enable Message Retention Service
Select this option to enable the Message Retention Service.
Restore Default Settings
Click to return to the default settings and clear any options you have changed.
Lock Button
The Enable Message Retention Service setting is inherited by each subsequent
level. For example, if you enable the setting at the domain level, the domain's
post offices and users inherit the setting. If you enable the setting at the
post office level, the post office's users inherit the setting.
By default, inherited settings can be overridden. For example, if you turn on the Enable Message Retention Service setting at the post office level, you can turn it off for individual post office users. If you don't want inherited settings to be overridden, you must use the lock button to lock the settings. For example, if you lock the Enable Message Retention setting at the post office level, you cannot change the setting for individual post office users.
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