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# Message retention policy (beta)
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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 a retention policy for individual streams, to just delete
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messages on those specific streams.
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* Setting an organization-level policy, and a "forever" policy for
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specific streams, to preserve messages indefinitely on those
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streams, while automatically deleting both PMs and messages sent to
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other streams.
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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. Contact support@zulipchat.com if you're on one of
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these plans and would like to enable it.
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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 promtly 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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* [Delete a stream](/help/delete-a-stream)
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