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Message retention policy (beta)

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By default, Zulip stores messages indefinitely, allowing full-text search of your complete history.

Zulip supports configuring both a global organization-level message retention policy, as well as retention policies for individual streams. These policies control how many days a message is stored before being automatically deleted (the default being forever). Zulip's system supports:

Setting an organization-level retention policy, which applies to all private messages and all streams without a specific policy.
Setting a retention policy for individual streams, which overrides the organization-level policy for that stream. This can be used to just delete messages on specific streams, to only retain messages forever on specific streams, or just to have a different retention period.

In Zulip Cloud, message retention policies are available on the Zulip Cloud Standard and Zulip Cloud Plus plans, as well as for the hundreds of communities with sponsored Cloud Standard hosting.

Configure message retention policy for organization

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Under Message retention, configure Message retention period.

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Configure message retention policy for individual streams

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Select a stream.
On the right, click [Change] next to the description of the stream permissions.
Under Message retention for stream, configure Message retention period.