Hi
Treat the email as you would a paper record. The lifecycle is
determined by the content not the medium of transmission.
Regards
Paul Dodgson
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From: The UK Records Management mailing list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Debbie
Richards
Sent: 29 March 2006 15:01
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Retention of emails
Our organisation has an outsourced telephone enquiry unit which handles
all
our general enquiries and passes them onto the relevant departments for
a
response. They currently archive these onto disc after 6 months but
they've asked me if they can delete these emails 3 months after receipt
as
their mailboxes are getting full to capacity. Does anyone have any
similar
records in their organisations and if so do you have a set retention
time
for them.
Thank you
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